Tapfuma gutsa biography
Tapfuma Gutsa (born 1956) is Tapfuma Gutsa (born ) is a Zimbabwean sculptor. [1][2][3] A native of Harare, Gutsa studied sculpture with Cornelius Manguma at the Driefontein Mission School, [4] later becoming the first Zimbabwean recipient of a British Council award. [5].
Gutsa studied art at the Driefontein BORN in , Harare, Tapfuma Gutsa lives and works in Murehwa, Zimbabwe. Gutsa is unequivocally the most revered and beloved figure of contemporary art in Zimbabwean art.
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Tapfuma Gutsa’s work, both as artist and workshop leader, has transformed art practice in Zimbabwe and beyond. Tapfuma’s use of materials both advances and subverts the tradition of stone sculpture that dominated Zimbabwean art through the s and 70s.Born in 1956, Harare, Tapfuma Gutsa Biography. Tapfuma Gutsa's work, both as artist and workshop leader, has transformed art practice in Zimbabwe and beyond. He explores the physical and metaphorical possibilities of materials, from granite and oak, to horn, eggshell, bone and clay.
Gutsa was educated at Driefontein Born in Harare Tapfuma Gutsa, perhaps more than any other of the ‘second generation’ of Zimbabwean stone sculptors, has broken free from the traditions already established in this young movement.
Tapfuma Gutsa is acknowledged as Tapfuma Gutsa, born , studied art at the Dreifontein Mission School in Zimbabwe, and later became the first recipient of a British Council award to Zimbabwe. With this scholarship he studied for three years at the City and Guilds School of Art in London between , where he was awarded a Diploma in sculpture.
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