Sylvester Mubayi

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Sylvester Mubayi (* 1942 in the Chiota reservation near Marondera) is a sculptor from Zimbabwe .

biography

After school, Sylvester Mubayi worked as a tobacco sorter. In 1966 he found a job in the Chubuku Brewery in Harare . By chance he met Tom Blomefield there with a truckload of stone sculptures for the National Gallery in Harare. He was so fascinated by them that he asked for a job in Blomefield's artist village of Tengenenge to test his talent for sculpture . This turned out to be so pronounced that he soon became a founding member of Frank Mc Ewen's Vukutu art school in the National Gallery. Just three years later, he won a prize at an exhibition in Durban . Sylvester Mubayi now works near Fanizani Akuda and Edward Chiwawa in Chitungwiza, a workers' settlement south of Harare.

Sylvester Mubayi is a member of the Friends Forever artists' association and one of the most famous representatives of the first generation of modern sculptors in Zimbabwe.

style

A great storyteller, Sylvester is known for his extensive knowledge of the traditional myths , which he likes to explain. Like Bernard Matemera, he often fuses the human, the animal and the world of supernatural powers. In relation to traditional ways of thinking, for example, he creates people with the head of a bird; he says he is an ambassador from the other world and brings news to the family about a recently deceased family member.

Exhibitions

Sylvester Mubayi's works have been presented at numerous exhibitions in many countries since 1968. a. in Moscow, Washington DC, Chicago, Vienna, Berlin; they are part of well-known collections in Europe and North America. In 1969 he received the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Award for sculpture .

swell

  • Ben Joosten: Lexicon: Sculptors from Zimbabwe. The first generation . Dodeward, Netherlands; ISBN 90-806629-1-7 (English)
  • Contemporary Master Sculptors of Zimbabwe . Friends Forever, Ruwa Zimbabwe 2007; ISBN 978-0-7974-3527-8 , (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 (English)
  • 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 Mubayi, New Years Eve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zimbabwean sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiota reserve