artHARARE | Showcasing Contemporary art from Zimbabwe at 1-54 London

Showcasing contemporary art from Zimbabwe at 1-54 London 12-15 Oct 2023 Booth W15 www.artharare.com

artHarare is proud to present a curated selection of artworks by leading Zimbabwean emerging visual artists at the 11th edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London. The presentation will showcase leading Zimbabwean contemporary visual artists Franklyn Dzingai, Wilfred Timire, Option Dzikamai Nyahunzvi, Prudence Chimutuwha, Mostaff Muchawaya and Richard Mudariki. These artists works span across various media including mixed media, prints, works on canvas and paintings. Represented in this presentation is a generation of contemporary visual artists who speak most vocally and accurately about their nationtheir peoples dreams, challenges, hopes and morals - through their artworks. They are deeply committed to their practices and identify with the narrative that is Zimbabwe. This presents an opportunity for a London audience to engage with the new voices of contemporary artists coming from the nation.

Cover image: Franklyn Dzingai, Studio Portrait (Ruvarashe)

Founded in 2020 by Richard Mudariki, artHARARE is Zimbabwe’s leading platform to experience and discover contemporary art from Zimbabwe and its Diaspora. Now in its fourth year running artHARARE places itself in the landscape of institutions and platforms founded by artists that are set up with the desire to help grow the African art scene and provide access to the continent’s great artistic talent. It has a strong belief in supporting groundbreaking work by the next generation of artists from Zimbabwe and provides a dynamic pathway to which those works are presented and celebrated.

Over the past four years, a diverse program has created a strong sense of community pride for local artists, and national pride for Zimbabwean artists that are practising in the Diaspora, whilst at the same time engaging new audiences. The platform also enables artists and cultural producers to dialogue and debate among themselves as well with other art professionals in other parts of the world, encouraging new ideas, and providing opportunities to network.

Our programs have empowered local visual artists, creating new markets for their work and allowing them to participate in the growing interest in contemporary African. The 2020 inaugural edition of artHARARE showcased

over thirty leading artists living and working in Zimbabwe, South Africa, France, UK, Canada and the United Sates of America. artHARARE 2021 called on artists to respond to Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, as a catalyst and incubator for relational aesthetics between art and the city and engagements with transitions and continuities in the city and their historicity. Thirty-one artists from varying disciplines exhibited presenting works resonating with multiple perspectives and constructs of a postcolonial city and its hybrid mix of culture, politics and modernity.

The artHARARE Art Prize, which awards earlycareer artists from Zimbabwe and its Diaspora with opportunities to develop their practices, was set up in 2021. Wilfred Timire and Franklyn Dzingai were the first recipient of the prize.

From 2022, artHARARE has collaborated with other art institutions, patrons, galleries, art residencies, museums and art fairs to showcase and promote contemporary art from Zimbabwe in various global cities from Cape Town, Milan, Paris, Johannesburg, Harare among others.

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FRANKLIN DZINGAI

Franklyn Dzingai (b.1988) lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is a mixed media artist who collages flat blocks of prints with various other picture elements extracted from newspapers, magazines, tabloids, books, and his family photo archive.

Dzingai says ‘I enjoy the spontaneity of drawing, while printmaking challenges me to work with economy of means. I concentrate on essentials so that I can evaluate a concept and its alternative solutions. My preferred technique is card print because it enables me to incorporate different textures, effects and backgrounds and allows me some flexibility for variation during the stages of the printing process. In my work I am interested in exploring all the issues that impact my life, from the social concerns of everyday living in Zimbabwe to the lives of my family, my personal experiences, memories and interactions.

Recent Exhibitions:

A Gathering (2023), group show at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare

Wadii (2023), group show at Cape Town Art Residency, Cape Town

Shanduko (2022), group show at OSART Gallery, Milan

FRANKLIN DZINGAI

Two Brothers

Mixed media on canvas, inscribed, titled and dated 2022

110 x 161cm

FRANKLIN DZINGAI

Studio Portrait (Ruvarashe)

Mixed media on canvas, inscribed and dated 2023

74 x 111cm

FRANKLIN DZINGAI

Desire in Her

Card print and collage on fabriano paper, signed and dated 2022

75 x 113cm

WILFRED TIMIRE

Wilfred Timire (b. 1989) lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Timire practice stands from his deep analysis and research of his surroundings, highlighted by his tendency to assemble found elements like packaging materials and weave them into a tapestries that express everyday life experiences.

His combination of recycled materials, embroidery, and sewing provides him a place in the lately Zimbabwean contemporary scene, where emerging artists’ are using diverse materials in creating visual expressions, as a way of shaking and shifting the conventional practice by introducing new elements and considering other forms.

Recent Exhibitions:

A Gathering (2023),group show at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare

Wadii (2023), group show at Cape Town Art Residency, Cape Town

Shanduko (2022), group show at OSART Gallery, Milan

WILFRED TIMIRE

Chimoko

Mixed media, signed and dated 2021

40 x 59cm

WILFRED TIMIRE

Prime Time

Offset ink on sack, signed and dated 2022

87.6 x 147.3cm

OPTION DZIKAMAI NYAHUNZVI

Option Dzikamai Nyahunzvi (b.1992) lives and works in Harare. His work is characterised by layers of vibrant colours fused with contour lines,. Nyahunzvi notes that his practice focuses on matters of spirituality central to his Shona culture Taking his totem (zebra) as a point of departure has been exploring and asserting the importance of traditional story-telling and mythology in contemporary art.

His vibrant compositions are carefully considered and explore the communion between the ancestral spirits and the living.

Recent Exhibitions:

Kwatinobva Kunoyera (Sacred Origins), 2021 solo exhibition at Unit Gallery, London

Face the Nation, 2022 solo exhibition at Pacers Gallery, Nigeria

OPTION DZIKAMAI NYAHUNZVI

Kusaziva Kwakafanana Nekufa Mixed media and oils on canvas, signed and dated 2021

150 x 173cm

OPTION DZIKAMAI NYAHUNZVI

Birthday Girl

Mixed media and oils on canvas, signed and dated 2021

130 x 130cm

OPTION DZIKAMAI NYAHUNZVI

68 x 75cm

Nhava Izere Mhepo Oil, acrylic and paper collage on canvas, signed and dated 2021

OPTION DZIKAMAI NYAHUNZVI

Acrylic and paper collage on canvas, signed and dated 2012

51 x 56cm

Muyera Tembo

PRUDENCE CHIMUTUWAH

Prudence Chimutuwah (b.1989) is an emerging contemporary visual artist who lives and works in Harare. She is fascinated with collage and her work mainly depicts women in the world they dominate or subordinate to. She is inspired by her gender and how it adapts to the ever changing socio-economic environment.

Prudence says about her work ‘...my work is informed and inspired by the everyday life of women; their economic aspirations, desire for spirituality, need for attention and energy for hustling. Women are the incubator of society – what is within them is nurtured and multiplied hence my personal affiliation as a creative woman. I hope to deposit positive energy in women in my generation and beyond. I hope to see the pride of women in Zimbabwe being restored. The Zimbabwean woman is resilient and focused; she is the backbone of the family and is quite active in the market place.

Recent Exhibitions:

Journeys, 2023, group show at SMO Contemporary Art, Lagos

We Contain Multitudes, group show at Montague Contemporary, New York

Face Yebasa, solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare.