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SPIRITS IN STONE - ART & ANIMALS OF AFRICA
Our largest exhibition of the year! Showcasing live animals and one-of-a-kind stone sculptures by internationally acclaimed Shona stone sculptors, as well as masks, jewelry, and baskets, will open at the San Diego Natural History Museum on July 11 and will remain at the Museum through October 12, 2008. All of the artwork is available for purchase with the proceeds benefiting the Museum as well as the African communities in which the Shona artists live. "Shona Sculpture is perhaps the most important new art form to emerge from Africa this century." - Newsweek The Shona art movement has become the most important and internationally recognized artform in all of Africa. The Shona artists tell stories of their culture through the sculptures, preserving their oral cultural heritage by shaping it into eternal forms. The sculptures are mostly hand carved in hard serpentines, verdite, and lepidolite stones to preserve the immortality of the works. Its stylized geometric features portray powerful ancestor spirits, human feelings, animals and spirits in an unmistakable style. Each work seems to emanate a spiritual force of it's own. "World's best unknown artists." - The Economist
The exhibition features the masterpieces of Zimbabwe's most collected and best-known sculptors, and also introduces some works of Africa's newest generation of young men and women artists. "...unlike art found in much of the rest of Africa, Shona sculpture...has become a wholly indigenous modern art form created exclusively as a form of artistic expression." - New York Times This is the largest exhibit of Shona Sculpture in the world today and will be changing artists and artwork throughout the 3 month run. Watch for the uncrating, too! Art & Animals of Africa A Benefit Exhibition and Sale July 11 through October 12,2008. San Diego Natural History Museum Opening VIP Gala - Thursday, July 10th from 5 to 8:30 pm RSVP to 619.255.0260 or lgarcia@sdnhm.org by July 6, 2008 Open to the general public: July 11, 2008 through October 12, 2008. 10 to 5pm daily.
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