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Zimbabwean multi-disciplinary artist
Masimba Hwati examines postcolonial themes by re-appropriating archives and objects and presenting them in new contexts. With an emphasis on sculptural work, Hwati collects historical, culturally imbued items ranging from cars and shoes, to scrap metal and found
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School of Art and Design in 2003 where he majored in
Ceramics and Painting. Hwati taught Visual Arts and 3D Art at Harare Polytechnic School of Art and Design. He is a PhD Candidate at Akademie Der Bildenden Künste Wien, Österreich, an MFA from Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design University of
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Hwati attempts to work from basics, creating his own pigments, and creating objects from basic materials. His works use contemporary and historical themes. He also works extensively with found objects, transfoming existing artifacts into elements of works of art.
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Hwati explores the transformation and evolution of knowledge systems that are indigenous to his own background whilst experimenting with the symbolism and perceptions attached to cultural objects, expressed as an art movement known as "The Energy of
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In 2006 Hwati won the
National Art Merit Award, the highest individual art honour in Zimbabwe. He was one of three national representatives who had a showing at the Zimbabwean Pavilion exhibition, Pixels Of Ubuntu/Unhu, at the 56th Venice Biennale.
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Hwati was named amongst 12 "The Ones to Watch" by New
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Hwati says that he should be able to find at least 35 variations in any given object, but says that often he cannot realize more than ten.
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Research Fellow the Arts of Africa and the Global South search
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Face To Face: From
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Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was most recently, included in the
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