Garison Machinjili, "Runner", 1991
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Garison Machinjili, "Runner", 1991
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Garison Machinjili
born in 1963, Mazoe, Zimbabwe
lives and works as a sculptor since 2000 in Guruve, Zimbabwe
Group exhibitions include: "African Odyssey: 50 Years of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture", OXO Gallery, London, UK, "Custom and Legend: A Culture In Stone", Kew Gardens, London, UK; Inaugural exhibition at the Chapungu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Zuva Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
In late 1987, he had established his name as an important new talent in the Zimbabwean art scene
Joined the Chapungu Sculpture Village as a resident artist from 1987 until 1991 and returning again in 1999-2000
Garison Machinjili began work in 1986 as an assistant to his cousin, Tapfuma Gutsa. Today, he enjoys a reputation as one of Zimbabwe’s foremost sculptors and has participated in exhibitions at national and international levels. Machinjili’s work is distinctive for his exclusive treatment of the stone. He mostly works in Serpentinite, which unfolds a string plastic effect when polished. Damaged human existence is his subject. His torsos, both male and female, still convey the bodies’ natural beauty, their force and their erotic magnetism. But the artist expressed their lost wholeness by marking polished surfaces with traces of eruption and by giving rough finishes to complete body parts.
2006 - "African Odyssey: 50 Years of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture", OXO Gallery, London, England
2004 - „Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture. A Retrospective 1957 – 2004“, Pierre Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
2002 - Gallery Munhatapa, Boschendal, Niederlande
2000 - "Custom and Legend: A Culture In Stone", Kew Gardens, London, England
1998 - Zuva Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Inaugural exhibition at the Chapungu Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
1995 - „Afrikanische Gegenwartskunst. Skulpturen und Gemälde aus Zimbabwe und Uganda“, Kunst Transit, Berlin, Deutschland
1993 - „Pachipamwe Workshop“, National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Sevilla Art Expo“, Sevilla, Spanien
- Loveland, USA
- „Chapungu Annual Exhibition“, Chapungu Sculpture Park, Harare, Zimbabwe
1992 - „Pachipamwe Workshop“, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
1990 - „Zavacad“, John Boyle Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
1989 - „Le Forum“, Alliance Francaise de Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
1988 - „Nedlaw Zimbabwe Heritage“, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Utonga Workshop“, John Boyne Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Utonga Workshop“, Delta Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
- „Le Forum“, Alliance Francaise de Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe
1987 - „Nedlaw Zimbabwe Heritage“, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Sibanda, Doreen, „Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture. A Retrospective 1957 – 2004“, Embassy of France & Weaver Press, Harare 2004, 148 S. mit farbigen Abbildungen
- Chapungu Sculpture Park, Harare
- Guruve Ltd., Hertfordshire
- Kunst Transit, Berlin
- Sammlung Lindner, Berlin
- Richard Handelsman, Private Sammlung von Shona Skulpturen, USA