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Permanent exhibitions of the work by young Zimbabwean artists :

Stone sculptures

Wow-Terre Sauvage and Shamwari Association invite you to stroll through our garden of stone sculptures from Zimbabwe.

This form of art, still rather unknown in France, was encouraged in the 1950s by Frank McEwen, the then curator of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. He opened a sculpting village-workshop near Harare, the Village of Tengenenge, where artists could, and still do, express their creativity, and transmit their savoir-faire to future generations of sculptors. McEwen described the artists' work as being 'the images that they carry in their souls'.

Almost 60 years later, this art has become known throughout the world, and we are very proud to have a number of these sculptures in our garden too.

You will find pieces in springstone, cobalt stone, fruit serpentine, and green or lemon opalstone, sculpted by the loving hands of several up-and-coming artists, such as Alexander Chitungo, Tonderai and Lisborn Mashaya, or Alex Kambiri, whose stone hippos in fruit serpentine are a constant source of wonder.

Paintings exhibition

You will also discover in the house/gallery the excellent contemporary artworks of several young and very talented Zimbabwean artists. These works of great creativity, of energy and of hope express the contemporary thinking in Africa today as well as the questions and suffering in contemporary Zimbabwe.

You will find works by Masimba Hwati, Virginia Chihota, Mishek Masamvu, Tafadzwa Gwetai, Gareth Nyandoro, Admire Kamudzengerere, Anthony Bumhira, Moffat Takadiwa, Dumasani Ndhlovu, Munyaradzi Mazawire and Portia Zavahera .

The artists all collaborate with the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and these works come to the Dordogne after exhibition at the University of Avignon in March every year, as part of a student cultural project called 'Expressions of Africa'.

Metal objects exhibition

Zimbabweans are extremely talented people! They take old cars, old oil drums and metal waste and turn it into art, very good art. Recycled art. Superb herons, giraffes, warthogs, ducks, peacocks, robins and even an elephant all live in our garden.


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		Permanent exhibitions of the work by young Zimbabwean artists : - Stone sculptures - Contemporary art paintings - Recycled metal art Stone sculptures Wow-Terre Sauvage and Shamwari Association invite you to stroll through our garden of stone sculptures from Zimbabwe. This form of art, still rather unknown in France, was encouraged in the 1950s by Frank McEwen, the then curator of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. He opened a sculpting village-workshop near Harare, the Village of Tengenenge, where artists could, and still do, express their creativity, and transmit their savoir-faire to future generations of sculptors. McEwen described the artists' work as being 'the images that they carry in their souls'. Almost 60 years later, this art has become known throughout the world, and we are very proud to have a number of these sculptures in our garden too. You will find pieces in springstone, cobalt stone, fruit serpentine, and green or lemon opalstone, sculpted by the loving hands of several up-and-coming artists, such as Alexander Chitungo, Tonderai and Lisborn Mashaya, or Alex Kambiri, whose stone hippos in fruit serpentine are a constant source of wonder. Paintings exhibition You will also discover in the house/gallery the excellent contemporary artworks of several young and very talented Zimbabwean artists. These works of great creativity, of energy and of hope express the contemporary thinking in Africa today as well as the questions and suffering in contemporary Zimbabwe. You will find works by Masimba Hwati, Virginia Chihota, Mishek Masamvu, Tafadzwa Gwetai, Gareth Nyandoro, Admire Kamudzengerere, Anthony Bumhira, Moffat Takadiwa, Dumasani Ndhlovu, Munyaradzi Mazawire and Portia Zavahera . The artists all collaborate with the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and these works come to the Dordogne after exhibition at the University of Avignon in March every year, as part of a student cultural project called 'Expressions of Africa'. Metal objects exhibition Zimbabweans are extremely talented people! They take old cars, old oil drums and metal waste and turn it into art, very good art. Recycled art. Superb herons, giraffes, warthogs, ducks, peacocks, robins and even an elephant all live in our garden.