alice musararaAlice Musarara werd in 1953 geboren in Guruve, Zimbabwe. In 1987 bezocht ze Tengenenge om de begrafenis van een familielid bij te wonen. Haar man was overleden en ze had de zorg voor haar zoon. Ze besloot om in Tengenenge te blijven en kreeg onderricht van haar oom Bernard Matemera. Al snel begon ze zelfstandig te werken en ontstond er grote belangstelling voor haar beelden. Inmiddels heeft zij zowel in Zimbabwe als in Europa en de Verenigde Staten grote bekendheid verworven. Er staan beelden van haar in het Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal, elders in Nederland en ook in Duitsland, Denemarken, Engeland, Bulgarije en Zuid Afrika. Thema’s uit de spirituele wereld vertaalt zij in steen en een van haar favoriete onderwerpen is het moederschap. De laatste jaren is er een ontwikkeling naar vrouwentorso's en meer abstracte beelden.
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bernard matemeraBernard Matemera was born in 1946 in Guruve, Zimbabwe. Already at school he showed a great talent in carving wood and modeling clay. In 1966 he started to work in the serpentine-stone in Tengenenge and he became world famous with his original art. He never left Tengenenge. In his Shona-culture he believed that life’s joys and sorrows are the result of the relationship between the individual and his ancestors’ spirits. Bernard’s subjects are derived from people and animals that he has seen in the past. In his imagination the essence of these beings is selected and greatly magnified and put together as grotesque human, animal forms. These are the elements of his strange and attractive creations. His sculptures are bought by private collectors, galleries and museums worldwide. Bernard is the uncle of Alice Musarara. He taught her to work in the serpentine-stone in Tengenenge and she became one of the most famous woman-sculptors of Zimbabwe. They both see their art in a dream first. “I have only to create it, it is already in the stone”. Now Alice and her husband and sculptor Hans van Belle have a gallery with Shona sculptures in Nederasselt, in the Netherlands. In 2001-2002 they bought a collection of sculptures from Bernard Matemera for their own private collection and they are now willing to sell them.
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