Edward Chiwawa

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Edward Chiwawa (born March 9, 1935 in Guruve) is a sculptor from Zimbabwe .

biography

Edward Chiwawa comes from the Shona people of the Kore Kore from a district northwest of Guruwe , about 150 kilometers from Harare . At first he was a carpenter ; since 1967 he learned sculpture from his cousin Henry Munyaradzi , to whose large family he is closely related. From 1970 to 1973 he lived in the artist village of Tengenenge , after which he moved to the working class suburb of Chitungwiza, ten miles south of the capital Harare, not far from Fanizani Akuda . His wife Sherita (a sister of Henry Munyaradzi), his daughters and sons Cragemia and Macloud are independent artists and work with him in his workshop.

style

Edward Chiwawa is one of the most famous representatives of the first generation of modern sculptors in Zimbabwe. For him, basic motifs are aspects of the universe such as the sun and moon, to which he gives serious human faces with geometrically shaped features. His famous "moon-heads" made of serpentine or opal radiate a fascinating magic in their concentrated abstraction . In contrast to some younger sculptors who only see stone as a material , Chiwawa - like many sculptors of the 'first generation' - leaves the stone its dignity . "The stone speaks for itself," he said.

Exhibitions

Edward Chiwawa took part in many international exhibitions since the 1980s . In 1987 and again in 1996 he won first prize at the “International Small Format Sculpture Exhibition” in Budapest . Edward Chiwawa had his own exhibitions in London (1981), Frankfurt am Main (1985), Sydney (1986), and 1987 in Melbourne , Rome and Paris . He is a member of the Friends Forever artists' association and regularly participates in their group exhibitions .

swell

  • Contemporary Master Sculptors of Zimbabwe , Ruwa, Zimbabwe 2007; ISBN 978-0-7974-3527-8 (English)
  • Ben Joosten: Lexicon: Sculptors from Zimbabwe. The first generation , Dodeward, Netherlands. ISBN 90-806629-1-7 (English)
  • Oliver Sultan: Life in Stone. Zimbabwean Sculpture. Birth of a Contemporary Art Form , Harare 1999; ISBN 1-77909-023-4 (English)
  • Celia Winter-Irving: Stone Sculpture in Zimbabwe. Context, Content and Form , Harare 1991
  • Anthony and Laura Ponter: Spirits in Stone. The New Face of African Art , Sebastopol / California 1992
  • Jean Kennedy: New Currents, Ancient Rivers. Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change , Washington DC 1992 (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Chiwawa, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zimbabwean sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Guruve