Sylvester Mubayi - Mother and child - Verkocht

Zeer grote apen (baboon) sculpture van de wereld beroemde kunstenaar Sylvester Mubayi, 1e generatie artist uit Zimbabwe. 

Uniek werk, volledig met de hand uitgekapt in zwarte serpentijn steen, een zeer hard en lastige te bewerken steen soort.

Een prachtig, uniek en eenmalig werk.

Titel is mother en child.
Gekocht in 2019 in een gallery in berlijn (friends forever Zimbabwe). Wegens herinrichting te koop aangeboden. Met certificatie van echtheid. 

Sylvester Mubayi is a venerated old man, one of the first generation of Zimbabwean sculptors to achieve international exposure and acclaim. His life and work is guided by Shona culture and beliefs, and as an elder he teaches and advises the younger members of his community through metaphor and storytelling – and his sculptures always tell a story as well.
Sylvester is one of the last surviving links to the early days of modern Zimbabwean sculpture. He began sculpting in the 1960s at the Tengenenge sculpture community in northern Zimbabwe. Later, he was invited to be a resident artist at the National Gallery by its influential first director, Frank McEwen. Sylvester was a founder member of the new sculpture community established by McEwen in Vukutu (eastern Zimbabwe), where he did some of his finest work.

Born in 1942 in the Chiota Reserve, near Marondera. After leaving school Sylvester worked as a tobacco grader and moved to Harare in 1966 to seek employment at the Chibuku Breweries. In 1967 he joined the Sculptors Community at Tengenenge. Later he was a founder member of the Vukutu Workshop School established by Frank McEwen who much later in 1987 said of him “Certainly when I knew him he was by far the greatest sculptor there. I have tremendous admiration for him – some of his work is as great as anything in the world.”
Sylvester now lives and works in Chitungwiza. His work is inspired by a world of spirit and supernatural forces often fusing people and the animal world. Skeletons inspired his early work. He has exhibited extensively since 1968 in many parts of the world and has work in major collections in Europe and North America.