Art from zimbabwe especially shona stone sculptures is high sought after around the world many of the artist realising international acclaim enabling them to sell their pieces of art for extremely. Ukama sculptures are intended to evoke feelings of harmony and peace that earn the blessings of our ancestors and remind us of our global family. It gets its name from the shona tribe of people actually a mixture of many similar tribes with closely related language and culture who are the largest in zimbabwe.
Shona sculpture is the name given to a modern movement of stone carved sculpture created in zimbabwe. Seminal group exhibitions organised by mcewen during the 1960s 1970s period include musée rodin paris france and at the institute for contemporary arts ica london uk. Shona sculpture is widely accepted as the most important art movement to emerge from africa in the twentieth century.
Shona sculpture gains exposure overseas. The stone carving has been part of the zimbabwean culture since 1200 ad when great zimbabwe an archaeological masterpiece of their early ancestors was built. Shona artists are well known for their stone sculptures and are typically called shona sculptures.
Nov 4 2016 the shona are a group of peoples inhabiting parts of southern africa. Since 1970 chapungu has been tireless read more. From its humble beginnings as a small gallery in the capital city harare to the 20 acre sculpture park in the outskirts of harare.
In 1970 chapungu sculpture park has pioneered the promotion of zimbabwe stone sculpture shona sculpture. Founded by roy guthrie as african art promotions inc. See more ideas about sculpture shona zimbabwe.
Jul 14 2015 explore james s board shona zimbabwe sculpture on pinterest. Zimbabwe is the only african country with large amounts of carvable stone. Brian gaisford grew up with the shona artists in zimbabwe before 1975.
Shona sculpture from zimbabwe is one of the main focuses of hemingway gallery which was the first gallery to import the monumental stone sculpture to the united states.
Zimbabwe sculptures. Jonathan zilberg has pointed out that there is a parallel market within zimbabwe for what he calls flow sculptures whose subject matter is the family ukama in shona and which are produced throughout the country from suburban harare to guruve in the northeast and mutare in the east. These readily available and inexpensive forms of. Guruve promotes the very best in contemporary african art with an extensive collection of authentic original african art and sculpture in our online gallery. Guruve are specialists and experts in contemporary stone sculpture from the shona sculpture art movement of zimbabwe.
Our web gallery is the international hub for the secondary market in works by the most famous names of this art. Zimbabwean art includes decorative esthetics applied to many aspects of life including art objects as such utilitarian objects objects used in religion warfare in propaganda and in many other spheres within this broad arena zimbabwe has several identifiable categories of art. It is a hallmark of african cultures in general that art touches many aspects of life and most tribes have a.
It is a hallmark of african cultures in general that art touches many aspects of life and most tribes have a. Zimbabwean art includes decorative esthetics applied to many aspects of life including art objects as such utilitarian objects objects used in religion warfare in propaganda and in many other spheres within this broad arena zimbabwe has several identifiable categories of art. Our web gallery is the international hub for the secondary market in works by the most famous names of this art.
Guruve are specialists and experts in contemporary stone sculpture from the shona sculpture art movement of zimbabwe. Guruve promotes the very best in contemporary african art with an extensive collection of authentic original african art and sculpture in our online gallery. These readily available and inexpensive forms of.
Jonathan zilberg has pointed out that there is a parallel market within zimbabwe for what he calls flow sculptures whose subject matter is the family ukama in shona and which are produced throughout the country from suburban harare to guruve in the northeast and mutare in the east.
