Size: 241X 279mm
Hardcover
112pages
A collection of works by Zimbabwe artist Portia Zvavahera. This book was published in the exhibition held at the New York gallery "David Zwirner" from November to December 2021. The author's expressive painting group was produced during the strongest loneliness and collective suffering on the earth.
The author forms the emotions born from a different world or a different dimension beyond everyday life and thoughts in paintings. Colorful images are rooted in the foundation of the earth like us, such as life, death, pain and joy, isolation, love and loss.
The author drew a metaphorical and fantastic scene using a powerful visual vocabulary, including women, his family and changing creatures. Some include the floral patterns designed by themselves and the complex pattern incorporated from the traditional design of Zimbabwe. The unique process that alternates between painting and prints is ultimately imagined that captures complex emotions in a relationship between tension and liberation, and is a very personal work that clearly explores the essence of humans. ing. ""I am in the painting (...) I can only talk about myself"The author says.
In this book, in addition to the 24 beautiful printed paintings, the image that shown the details and the details, the written essays written by curator Meredith Brown, the writer, Allie Biswaz. Includes interviews with the author by Biswas, and has been finished as an overview of works produced since 2017.
* Due to transportation, some scratches and dirt may be found.