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The strength of his work lies in the purity of form - technique and imagery are honed down to pinpoint the essence of his subject in the simplest of terms. The confident lines and clear-cut geometricicisions have often been compared to Klee (an artist of whom Munyaradzi will never have heard) ...
The career of Joram Mariga is inextricably linked with the beginning of Zimbabwean stone sculpture. Born of artistic parents in 1927, Mariga used to watch his father and brother carve wood, and his mother make open-fired ceramics.Experimenting with wood carving at first, he moved onto soft stones such as Steatite, but later discovered colourful, harder stones with which to work and became committed to this new material ...
Continually exploring spiritual and personal depths, his sculpture used powerful combinations of forms and, often carving right through the stone, holes and voids played a crucial part in the overall image, representing the all-seeing spiritual 'eye' of the piece.Willowy and fragile in appearance, his smaller works embodied enormous spiritual superiority and strength ...
Frank McEwen describes Bernard Takawira in the following terms:"The younger brother of John, he is an intellectually-advanced thinker who, apart from a fine instinct for creativity, has the most lucid understanding of the true position of art in the community."
As early as 1962 he started using the hardest materials available and, by example encouraged others to move from the soft Soapstone and Steatite then predominant, to hard Serpentines, Springstone, Limestone and Granite. These demanding stones were to compliment the powerful imagery of his sculpture and as a result he was soon acknowledged by many as a ' leader' of theWorkshop sculptors ...
Born in 1942 in the Chiota reserve, near Marondera (North EasternZimbabwe), his early childhood and family experiences were toinfluence the directions and philosophies of his adult life. As ayoung man he moved to Harare to find work and in 1966 he visited theNational Gallery and saw the astonishing stone sculpture for thefirst time. A chance meeting with Tom Bloomfield that same day led tothe invitation to join the new sculptor's community at Tengenege...
