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Farai Darare"Mermaid, " Carved Springstone by Farai Darare2002
2002
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"Mermaid" is a unique springstone sculpture by the Shona artist Farai Darare. It depicts a woman's face and an abstracted body that loops around to frame an oval of negative space. This piece is expertly carved to showcase two textures from the same stone. This sculpture weighs 30 pounds (approximately 13.6 kg).
16 3/4" x 8" x 5 1/4" art
30 lbs
Farai Walter Darare started working as a washer and polisher for his father's sculptures when he was seven years old. He worked and studied under the renowned Shona sculptors Chikumbirike, Runyanga, Muropa, and his father Casper Darare. The pieces he did with Casper have been exhibited in Southern Africa, Holland, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan and the United States of America. In 2000 he lost his father, but he has continued to create thought-provoking pieces. He specializes in abstract pieces which feature people with hands joining to form flowing twists and arches symbolizing harmony and unity. "To you, all my buyers, I hope and believe you will enjoy my beautiful pieces."
Farai Darare, was born in Murewa Zimbabwe on March 16th 1980. He started carving when he was just seven years old and was inspired to become an artist by his very famous father, Casper Darare. His father wanted his son to go to college and university but Farai said once sculpting is in you, you can never get it out.
When Farai graduated in 1996, he started selling his pieces full time. He took pieces to South Africa to sell and eventually stayed and worked with his father there for four years until his father tragically passed away. At first he started out with creative abstracts but soon he was carving busts and realist pieces. "I think and feel that I have my fathers touch. My strength lies in my amazing ability to create the exact work my father used to carve". After his father's death, Farai returned to Zimbabwe.
Farai says that women are the source of his inspiration. He loves to sculpt them, to uncover their inner beauty. He feels that women are not respected or appreciated enough and he wants to let the world know how important they are. "They are our mothers, sisters or daughters; they look after us and care so much about us. They are soft and warm and loving." Farai's work is very creative, original and well polished. He is an enthusiatic and dedicated artist with great things ahead. His pieces are very popular and can be found in private collections all over 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.
- Creator:Farai Darare (1980, Shona, Zimbabwean)
- Creation Year:2002
- Dimensions:Height: 16.75 in (42.55 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)Depth: 5.25 in (13.34 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Milwaukee, WI
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