By Terrence Musiyiwa At the fall of 2018, AVAC Arts opened its first workspace for artists to work from. We realised that a lot of artists fail to develop their careers and artistic skills because they do not have the raw material and/or tools to produce art. In response to that, we are now providing…
New Year, New Works, New artists
Cultural Trust to launch Cultural Expo
BY DUDUZILE NDLUKULWANI MATABELELAND Cultural Awards Trust will this year host an inaugural two-day cultural expo themed Umthwentwe from May 25 to 26 in Bulawayo in a bid to revive and safeguard the region’s cultural traits. In an interview with NewsDay Life & Style, the trust’s chief executive officer Philani Ncube said they were inviting…
Festival set to bring spark to showbiz
BY WINSTONE ANTONIO A NEW international festival of dance, Mafuwe, is set to light up the showbiz scene from August 16 to 18 in Harare, at a time a lot of festivals are folding due to the economic meltdown. The festival, to be held under the theme Invisible Boundaries, is the brain child of Germany-based…
NGZ calls for women exhibition entries
BY TAFADZWA KACHIKO THE National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) is inviting artworks from local female artists and those in the diaspora for this year’s women’s exhibition titled Balance for Better: Redesigning the Woman’s Space, running from March 22 to May 20 in Harare. In a statement, NGZ deputy director and chief curator Raphael Chikukwa said…
Decline in tourism affecting sculptors: Chamunorwa Manyore
The Canon Paterson Craft Center in Mbare is an artists cooperative established in 1973. Currently, it has a membership of fifty artists who work from there. According to sculptor Chamunorwa Manyore who is also the secretary for the center, the major problem facing the art collective is marketing. Manyore bemoans the dwindling number of tourists coming into…
Lawrence Arufaneti – Insights on Zimbabwe visual art scene
Lawrence Arufaneti a sculptor working from the Canon Paterson Craft Centre in Mbare believes the quality of sculpture currently being produced in Zimbabwe is much better than it was back in the past. According to him the first generation sculptors used to do very simple pieces of sculpture unlike the new generation of contemporary sculptors…
The other side of Oliver Mtukudzi
By Robert Mukondiwa There is an Oliver Mtukudzi. He was in the media and was celebrated immensely when he passed on last week in all forms of mass communication. He read like a saint. In other insinuations he read like a sinner. One would wonder who was Oliver Mtukudzi really. Yet Tuku would be interpreted…
Tashinga Majiri – At Work Exhibition
After an intensive six days of training at the National Gallery of Zimbawe participants were encouraged to interrogate their dreams. Tashinga Majiri created a hatching egg which he believes is a metaphor for his dream to become a decent artist. According to Tashinga birth is a bloody and painful yet rewarding process and he feels…
Wellington Chingondi – Insights on Zimbabwe visual art scene
Born in Mhondoro in 1977, Wellington Chingondi started sculpting in 1996 at the famous Tengenenge arts community founded by Tom Blomefield in Guruve. Inspired by the master sculptor Bernard Matemera whom he has very fond memories of,Wellington was taught sculpting by his brother in law Takawira Chikwanyanga Wellington believes sculpting is about subtraction because you…
Sculpture depicts Zimbabwe economic crisis
Reality imitates art sometimes and other times art imitates reality as captured by oppressed/thoughtful an abstract sculpture by Edmore Sango. Sango believes quite a number of Zimbabweans are not so happy and they are always thoughtful because of the economic hardships. “The money they earn is not enough, they think a lot during month ends trying…
