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Square Chikwanda

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Chikwanda's sculptures deal mostly with portraits and animals e.g. "Blind Portrait", Berlin, Germany or "Hippo", Tengenenge, Zimbabwe. His figures are generally very square and stylised : arms, legs and fingers are often square and show hard lines; noses have knife sharp edges. His sculptures
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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 Community he had several students, of whom
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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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Master Sculptors Of Zimbabwe, Art Center an der Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Germany, October – December 2006
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Master Sculptors Of Zimbabwe, Friends For Ever Gallery, Friedrichstrasse 134, Berlin, Germany, May 2010.
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Master Sculptors Of Zimbabwe, Boserup Gallery, Boserupvej 100, Roskilde, Denmark, February 2010.
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Mestres Escultors de Zimbabwe, Museo Comarcal, Montsia d'Amposta, Spain, 21 May-21 June 2009.
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Annual Heritage Exhibition, National Gallery, Harare, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1997.
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Master Sculptors Of Zimbabwe, Sanomatalo Building, Helsinki, Finland, March 2010.
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Square Chikwanda, "Blind Portrait", Springstone, 55 cm x 14 cm x 23 cm.
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National South-African Gallery, Overport, Durban, South Africa, 1991.
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became a good friend. In 1993 he left the community to work in
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Square Chikwanda, "Hippo", Springstone, 18 cm × 31 cm × 33 cm.
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Museum for Humour and Satire, Bucharest, Bulgaria, 1988.
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Exhibition Catalogue Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, 2006
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Index

Zimbabwean
sculptor
Harare, Zimbabwe
Mvurwi
Tengenenge Sculpture Community
primary school
Jonathan Mhondorohuma
Harare
Chapungu Sculpture Park
Chitungwiza
springstone
ISBN
978-0-7974-3527-8
"'Collection of Sculptures'"
Biographical sketch
Friends for ever Zimbabwe
Exhibition Catalogue Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, 2006
Tengenenge-Tomblomefield Museum
Afrika Museum Berg en Daal
ISBN
978-0-7974-3527-8
Categories
1972 births
Living people
People from Mashonaland Central Province
20th-century Zimbabwean sculptors
21st-century sculptors

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