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CROMWELL PLACE
Gallery 6
4 Cromwell Pl.
London
SW7 2JE
Opening times:
Mon - Sat: 10am to 6pm
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Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present the duo exhibition, Forever Etched On My Mind: Gareth Nyandoro and Mostaff Muchawaya.
The exhibition is a psychogeographical portrait of the town Ruwa, in Harare Province, Zimbabwe where both artists live and work. In their inimitable ways, Nyandoro and Muchawaya’s practices are committed to capturing the actions, mood and thought of life there; depicting the everyday struggle, tenacity and enterprise of its permanent and transitory communities, who are working and living in challenging economic circumstances. These experiences are tethered to the historical and present shifts in the landscape of the town, one of many established during the mid-1980s, transitioning from rural to more urbanised contexts.
Nyandoro’s latest works: ink on paper, mounted on wood panel, quietly observe the process of urban-planning development, its actors and the dichotomies felt and experienced of the public-private ‘partnership’. Muchawaya’s portraiture of individuals known to him are conjured through a process of observation and memories that are layered, partially removed and reworked, bringing to the surface of his canvases an emotionally evocative tableau. -
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About The Artists
Gareth Nyandoro was born in 1982, Bikita, Zimbabwe. He currently lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Recent exhibitions include Suburban Bliss, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL (solo - 2022); Maworks, Van Doren Waxter, New York (solo - 2021); Ruwa, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (solo - 2020); Read All About It, Van Doren Waxter, New York (2018); Par Amour du Jeu, Magasins Généraux, Paris (2018); Drawing Africa on the Map, Quetzal Art Centre, Portugal (group - 2018); Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (group - 2018); Stall(s) of Fame, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (solo - 2017); Kaleidoscope, Modern Art Oxford (group - 2016). Nyandoro won the FT/ Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices award in 2016 and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2014-2015.
Mostaff Muchawaya was born in 1981, Nyazura, Zimbabwe. He lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Recent exhibitions include Shanduko, Osart Gallery, Milan, Italy (group - 2022); Unsettled, Duende Art Projects, Zwartzusters Monastery, Antwerp, Belgium (group - 2022); In Your Shadow - Masking Realities, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (group - 2021); Where I come from / Kwandinobva, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa (solo - 2020); NIRIN 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020); My Faces / Zviso Zvangu, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa (solo - 2018); Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Cape Town, South Africa (group - 2018); Zimbabwe Meets Italy, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (group - 2018). -
WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION
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Mostaff Muchawaya
Mhai, 2022Oil, ink and found objects on canvas
215 x 254 cm
84 5/8 x 100 in -
Mostaff Muchawaya
Grebha, 2022Oil, ink and found objects on canvas
189 x 159 cm
74 3/8 x 62 5/8 in -
Mostaff Muchawaya
Chiedza, 2022Oil, ink and found objects on canvas
214 x 160 cm
84 1/4 x 63 in -
Mostaff Muchawaya
Untitled, 2022Oil, ink and found objects on canvas
100 x 69 cm
39 3/8 x 27 1/8 in -
Gareth Nyandoro
Elonet Flats Ruwa, 2021Ink on paper on wood with artist frame
52 x 45 cms
20 47/100 x 17 18/25 inches -
Gareth Nyandoro
2021Kuchekacheka (paper and ink on wood panel)
165 x 202 cm
65 x 79 1/2 in -
Gareth Nyandoro
Locked Chill, 2021Kuchekacheka (paper and ink on wood panel)
266 x 238 cm
104 3/4 x 93 3/4 in
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Forever Etched On My Mind: Gareth Nyandoro & Mostaff Muchawaya
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