FANIZANI
Akuda (1932) [view
available works from this artist]
Fanizani Akuda is one
of the masters of Zimbabwe's first generation of stone
sculptors. He was born on 11th November 1932 in Zambia
but came to Zimbabwe in 1949 to work as a farm foreman.
In 1966, Fanizani moved
with a friend to a farm in Tengenenge. He met Tom Blomfield
and joined the now World famousTengenenge
Art community.
Smiling figures, happy families, interaction between humans
and animals often in pairs or groups and not forgetting
"slit eyes", one of his distinguishing features,
became his "trademark". He has earned a tremendous
amount of exposure world wide and has exhibited in all
of the most important museums in the world from the MOMA
to the Centre George Pompidou or the Rodin Museum. Fanizani
Akuda has travelled many countries in exhibits and workshops,
including Germany, Denmark, USA, Holland, Sweden, Cuba
or Australia to mention just a few.
source "Sculptors
from Zimbabwe" (2001) - Ben Joosten
Selected
Exhibitions
Fanizani
Akuda at his studio (c) 2006
Fanizani
Akuda GALLERY
History
of Shona Sculpture
