Tapfuma gutsa biography of mahatma

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Tapfuma gutsa biography of mahatma

Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Zimbabwean sculptor born Awards [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Zimbabwe stone sculpture: the second generation. Harare, Zimbabwe: Chapungu Sculpture Park. Evidence of his experiences in a wider international art environment can still be found in his work. With each piece he seems to challenge afresh the established concepts of Zimbabwean stone sculpture.

The challenge goes out to international art audiences and fellow Zimbabwean sculptors alike. For many, he has been a powerful role model and young sculptors such as Dominic Benhura, Garrison Machinjili, Fabian Madamombe, Wencelous Marufu and Jonathan Gutsa all cite him as their major influence. It became common knowledge that Tapfuma Gutsa would share all he had — his home, his tools, his stone, his money and his experience with anyone seriously interested in art.

Tapfuma and his wife took up the task in a subsequent Pachipamwe workshop held in the Midlands, where they were living at the time. I am not an artist, but my talents were for organizing and promoting fellow Zimbabweans when called upon do so. He was at the time an agricultural demonstrator in the Eastern Highlands where they both lived. Two men are next in importance in this history: Frank McEwan, the director of the National Gallery in Salisbury in the sixties and Tom Blomefield, an entrepreneurial, former tobacco farmer who set his farm workers to carving out of stone.

The thread of the Pachipamwe story goes back through a British businessman friend of Mrs Pearce and of internationally famed sculptor Anthony Caro. Mrs Pearce was right about Tapfuma. Where artistic excellence was concerned, she always was.