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Edgar Sahondo"New Hair Style, " a Springstone Sculpture by Edgar Sahondo2002
2002
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"New Hair Style" is an original springstone sculpture by Shona artist Edgar Sahondo. It depicts a female head with an elongated neck and stylized hair and features.
21" x 10" x 9" sculpture
Born in Guruve, Zimbabwe on August 13th, 1968, Edgar Sahondo attended Chakaodza Primary School and later his secondary education at St. Francis Mission School. During his high school years, Edgar was inspired to take up stone carving by Bernard Matemera, an accomplished artist. After graduating, he was invited to join the Tengenege Sculpture Community where he worked for two years before coming to Harare in 1990. To make ends meet, he took a job at the Kentucky Airport Hotel from 1990 to 1993 but eventually his love of art won out and he turned to sculpting full-time.
By 1996, Edgar held his first exhibition at Sandros Gallery in Harare and continued on to participate in a number of National Gallery annual exhibitions. In 1998, he held a one man exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa and on July, 15th 2001, he was featured in the Daily Mail with Heather Fynn, a well known art promoter, showing off a piece called “Protecting the Future.”
Artists in Zimbabwe feel the economic hardships of the country. Edgar’s work often reflects his own self realizations about what he goes through during the hard times. "To be able to look at one’s self and see what needs to change, is the best asset a man could have.” He has said of his work, it helps him to remember that he can not change what he does not realize.
Edgar is a talented and accomplished artist. His work can be found in galleries and private collections around the world.
Shona artists and crafts people have been working in different media for generations. These include paintings, pottery, basket ware, wood carvings, and sculpture done in metal as well as the stone carvings. While there is not a long standing tradition of sculpture in what is now Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia), stone carvings dating from the 15th century were seen in Great Zimbabwe, an excavated temple near Bulawayo. Most of the artifacts from this location have been moved to museums in Cape Town, South Africa or London.
It is generally agreed that Zimbabwean stone sculpture as seen today began during the late colonial period of the 1950's and 1960's. During this period the artists and artisans depicted many of the traditional Shona and other tribal spiritual myths.
Out of all the nations in Africa, the large varieties and abundant supplies of rock formations present throughout the Zimbabwe landscape provide artists with a medium for sculpture and carvings unique to their country. The Shona art sculpture of Zimbabwe combines the wonderful varieties presented by the stone with images drawn both from reality and abstract symbolism.
Much of the stone used by Shona artists is quarried in areas which are adjacent or quite near the villages where the work is created. Often the land on which the stone is found is owned by the village or the local artists. The artists use stone such as Serpentine (somewhat old, having been formed about 2.6 billion years ago), with more than 200 color variations. The hardest and darkest of the Serpentine varieties is black, commonly known as Springstone or Africa stone.
The wonderful natural character of stone is used both in its rough cut and textured state, or heated and burnished to a high gloss to reveal rich greens, browns, blacks and grays. The hardness, shape, density and quantity used of serpentine, verdite, sandstone, granite, steatite and other stones define the ultimate presentation of completed Shona art sculptures and carvings.
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