Colleen Madamombe
Colleen Madamombe (* 1964, † 31 May 2009) was a sculptor from Zimbabwe.
Biography
Colleen Madamombe attended school in Kutama, Zimbabwe, from 1979-84. She studied sculpture for three years in Chapungu Sculpture Park in Harare, where she met the work of professional sculptors such as that of her revered Agnes Nyanhongo, and at the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe.
They did everything possible to encourage young sculptors: "I beg of you women to do the same work as a sculptor as the men. I know this is hard when you are married. Most men do not want their women are equal sculptor. I was married, and my husband was a sculptor. Now I 'm divorced and caring for my seven children. But that's okay. " (July 2004)
As a successful representative of the second generation of modern sculptors of Zimbabwe, she traveled around the world with exhibitions of their works, but their permanent residence remained life Harare, where she died 45 years old in May 2009.
Style
Colleen Madamombes big issue was the newly developed self-confident, proud African woman. Especially her images of women with children are almost ' expansive ' motherhood and in their everyday situations full of cheerful humor. In powerful, often dance-like, characteristic of female movement its most black Spring Stone ( serpentine) or opal carved sculptures play with the contrast rough, rich ornamented surfaces for typical wide flared skirts - or, for example the shopping baskets - and black - polished surfaces of faces and hands. Often they can be a virtuoso player of the existing parts of a brown mineral outer shell of a stone are, so that they form decorative patterns such as large flowers, butterflies or hearts. Typical titles: " I know my way" and " Proud with my dress".
There is little influence of other sculptors on Colleen Madamombes work; they especially admired the works Tapfuma Gutsas and Cosmos Muchenjes.
Importance
Colleen Madamombe has climbed one for Zimbabwean women extraordinary level of success in a traditionally male-dominated society. Her work makes the changing role of women in modern African society on the subject. Your realistic sculptures, creating by their direct approach, not least for the women in the rural areas of Zimbabwe who identify with them directly, a direct connection between great art and people in the countryside. Her work "The Birth " was observed at the Expo 2000 in Hannover much. Colleen Madamombe was a member of the artist association "Friends Forever" and regularly participated in the group exhibitions in the major cities of America and Europe. Her work is an essential part of any collection of contemporary Zimbabwean sculpture.
Swell
- Contemporary Master Sculptors of Zimbabwe. Friends Forever ( Pvt) Ltd.. , Ruwa Zimbabwe 2007, ISBN 978-0-7974-3527-8 (English).
- Master sculptors from Zimbabwe. Berlin 2006, ( exhibition catalog), PDF ( English).
- Prominent Sculptors of Zimbabwe: Agnes Nyanhongo and Colleen Madamombe. Chapungu Sculpture Park, Harare 1995 ( exhibition catalog: Launch venu, 9th December 1995 - 17th March 1996, Imba Yematombo Exhibition Arena, Chapungu Sculpture Park, Harare, Zimbabwe ), ( English).
- Olivier Sultan: Life in Stone. Zimbabwean Sculpture. Birth of a Contemporary Art Form. Baobab Books, Harare, 1999, ISBN 1-77909-023-4 (English).
- Celia Winter - Irving Stone Sculpture in Zimbabwe. Context, Content and form. Roblaw Publishers, Harare, 1991, ISBN 978-0-908309-11-5 (English).