This Shona sculpture was sculpted by Josiah Manzi. Its dimensions are 13 h x 4 w x 2.5 d inches and is going for $640.
Artist Narrative:
His work is spiritual maybe because of his Yao culture. In some of his paintings, the anatomy develops new and often disturbing relationships. To Josiah it seems natural for breasts to develop from thighs, yet to the on looker it seems surreal and a subversion of Orthodoxy. His ‘Monkey and owl and his Mirror’ seen like giant cameos-the smooth, carved figures of the animals, the bird and the human face carefully inlaid into the stone and offset by their natural setting. He notes, “Before I start a sculpture, I take off the blanket of stone, like taking off the skin of an animal. Nobody eats an animal before the skin is taken off”.
Collections:
- National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Chapungu sculpture Park, Zimbabwe
- Museum der weltkulturen, Frankfort, Germany
- Collection Reinhold and Heide Kersten, Schnitten in Taunus, Germany
- Collection Manfred Kuhnijk, Bad Soden, Germany
- Tengenenge museum Galerie de strang, Dodewaard, the Netherlands
- Collection Van Baren, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- The Joseph G Raeber collection, Dornach, Switzerland
Artist Residence: Tengenenge, Guruve, Zimbabwe
Read more here – https://zimsculpt.com/artists/josiah-manzi/
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