'Samson Mudzunga' (2001)

'Samson Mudzunga' (2001)From the publisher: "Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1938 in the former homeland of Venda where he still lives. Although Mudzunga began playing with clay as a child, it wasn't until much later in life that he became a self sustaining artist, acclaimed for performance events and extraordinary wood carvings such as his enormous coffin drums. Although based primarily in the Northern Province, Mudzunga uses Johannesburg as his urban base. The

that of the fugitive art that adorns the walls of mud huts in the subcontinent

A Long Walk To Freedom

a uniquely successful grassroots project that gives employment to poor women and provides them with skills training and HIV/AIDS support

In 2007 he was awarded the Tollman Award for the Visual Arts

a metal off-cut is seen anew as a zig-zagging line

With his post-Piss Christ series Nomads

Her practice moves across modes of consideration

“The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest

the artist questions his convictions

"Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed was elected Best Book on Architecture of the year 2010 by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan

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"Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1938 in the former homeland of Venda where he still lives