Sylvester Mubayi

Sylvester Mubayi ( * 1942 in Chiota Reserve at Marondera ) is a sculptor from Zimbabwe.

Biography

After school, Sylvester worked as Mubayi tobacco sorter. In 1966 he found employment in the Chubuku Brewery in Harare. By chance he met there, Tom Blomefield with a truckload of stone sculptures for the National Gallery in Harare. They fascinated him so much that he asked for a job in Blome Fields Artists Village Tengenenge to test his talent for sculpture. This proved to be so pronounced that he it Vukutu founding member of the Art School of Frank Mc Ewen in the National Gallery was soon. Three years later he won a prize at an exhibition in Durban. Sylvester Mubayi now works near Fanizani Akuda and Edward Chiwawa in Chitungwiza, a working class neighborhood south of Harare.

Sylvester Mubayi is a member of the artist association Friends Forever and one of the foremost representatives of the first generation of modern sculptors of Zimbabwe.

Style

Sylvester is a great storyteller and known for its spread knowledge of the traditional myths that he is happy to explain. As Bernard Matemera it merges often the human, the animal and the world of supernatural forces. In reference to the traditional ways of thinking he creates, for example, people with the head of a bird; according to him this is a messenger from the other world and bring the family news of a recently deceased family member.

Exhibitions

Sylvester Mubayis works have been presented in numerous exhibitions in many countries since 1968, including in Moscow, Washington DC, Chicago, Vienna, Berlin, they are part of well-known collections in Europe and North America. In 1969 he received the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Award for sculpture.

Swell

  • Ben Joosten: Lexicon: Sculptors from Zimbabwe. The first generation. Dodeward, The Netherlands; ISBN 90-806629-1-7 (English)
  • Contemporary Master Sculptors of Zimbabwe. Friends Forever, Ruwa Zimbabwe in 2007; ISBN 978-0-7974-3527-8 ( 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 ( English)
  • Jean Kennedy: New Currents, Ancient Rivers. Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change, Washington DC, 1992 ( English)
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