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Chikwanda's sculptures deal mostly with portraits and animals e.g. "Blind
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and learned the art of sculpture to become a full-time artist at the age of thirteen, developing his own style. At the
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remind indeed the art-deco figures of the 1930-1940 and are always polished to a high degree of perfection. He uses local
Zimbabawean stone, including
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with his father at the age of seven. There his father taught him at an early age to wash and polish stone. He finished
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Sculptors Of Zimbabwe, Friends For Ever Gallery, Friedrichstrasse 134, Berlin, Germany, May 2010.
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