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Zephania Tshuma (1932 – 2000)
Zephania Tshuma was born in 1932 in Wanazi, Filabusi District, Zimbabwe and died in 2000 in his village at West Nicholson, Zimbabwe, where he lived and worked.
Zephania Tshuma spent much of his working life as a builder before he started carving sculptures as gift for his friends.
Largely self-taught artist Zephania Tshuma’s work reflects a rare capacity for sprite-like movement between the worlds of the imagination and reality, and an equal facility for joining moral battle with his uncompromising irony.
Zephania Tshuma is represented in the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Geneva, which was founded in 1989 by Jean Pigozzi and curated from the outset by André Magnin. It is the largest private collection of its kind and has helped many African artists to show their work in major institutions around the world.
"Work on Wood", Gallery ZAK, Fürth, Bavaria, 12.07. – 30.09.2002
"Out of Africa", Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, 14.03. – 14.04.2002
"Life Colours", Contemporary Art from Africa, SiemensForum Erlangen, Erlangen, 11.01. - 07.03.2002
„Blick nach Afrika“, Neue Kunst, Galerien Bittner & Dembinski, Kassel, 21.02. – 20.03.1999
"Medicine in Contemporary African Art", Gallery ZAK, Fürth, Bavaria, 13.02. – 13.05.1998
"Time Travel - New Art from Africa", „Siemens informiert“, Erlangen, 19.09. - 16.10.1997
"New Art from Zimbabwe", Gallery ZAK, Fürth, Bavaria, 14.02. – 30.04.1997
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