Edward Chiwawa

Edward Chiwawa ( born March 9, 1935 in Guruve ) is a sculptor from Zimbabwe.

Biography

Edward Chiwawa comes from the Shona people of Kore Kore from a district north-west of Guruwe, about 150 kilometers from Harare. At first he was a carpenter; Since 1967, he learned sculpture from his cousin Henry Munyaradzi, to his great family, he has a close relationship. From 1970 to 1973 he lived in the artists' village Tengenenge, then he moved to the suburb of Chitungwiza workers ten miles south of the capital Harare, not far from Fanizani Akuda. His wife Sherita ( a sister Munyaradzis Henry ), his daughters and his sons Cragemia and Macloud are self-employed artists and work with in his workshop.

Style

Edward Chiwawa is one of the most well-known representative of the first generation of modern sculptors in Zimbabwe. Basic motives are for him aspects of the universe as the sun and moon, which he gives serious human faces with geometric-shaped trains. His famous " Moon - heads" of serpentine or opal shine in their concentrated abstraction of a fascinating magic. Unlike some younger sculptors who see the stone only as material leaves Chiwawa - like many sculptors of the ' first generation ' - the stone its dignity. " The stone speaks for itself ," he said.

Exhibitions

Since the 1980s, Edward Chiwawa participated in many international exhibitions. In 1987 and again in 1996 he won the 1st prize of the "International exhibition of small-scale sculpture " in Budapest. Edward Chiwawa had their own exhibitions in London ( 1981), in Frankfurt am Main ( 1985), Sydney (1986 ) and 1987 in Melbourne, Rome and Paris. He is a member of the artist association Friends Forever and participates regularly in their group exhibitions.

Swell

• Contemporary Master Sculptors of Zimbabwe, Ruwa, Zimbabwe in 2007; ISBN 978-0-7974-3527-8 (English)
• Ben Joosten: Lexicon: Sculptors from Zimbabwe. The first generation, Dodeward, Netherlands. ISBN 90-806629-1-7 (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
• Anthony and Laura Ponter: Spirits in Stone. The New Face of African style, Sebastopol / California 1992
• Jean Kennedy: New Currents, Ancient Rivers. Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change, Washington DC 1992 ( English)