Moffat Takadiwa

  • Moffat  Takadiwa
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Fine artist
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ABOUT
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Moffat  Takadiwa's  practice over the past several years has evolved to elevate found objects into sculptural forms that engage with issues of cultural identity, spirituality ,social practice and the environment. His work speaks potently to the cultural dominance illustrated by the consumption of foreign products in Zimbabwe and across Africa.



Takadiwa's "object paintings" draw attention to the  excess and despair implicit in our daily use of products and what  patterns of consumption emerge when the empty vessels are viewed enmass.



A self described "spiritual garbage man", Takadiwa reconfigures found consumer waste gleaned from the streets and dumps of Harare into almost magical compositions that seem to convey the aura of a totemic or ritualised object.



Moffat Takadiwa was born in Karoi, Zimbabwe in 1983 and lives and works in Harare. A representative of the born free generation of artists, he is perhaps one of the most geographically widely exhibited and collected of the  post-independence generation .Takadiwa has exhibited in all the major institutions in Zimbabwe including the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare and Bulawayo.



For the past several years he has been steadily attracting international attention with exhibitions in Bangkok, Paris, Amsterdam, New York, London, Berlin and Johannesburg



Selected Solo Exhibition.
 





2012

Africa Not Reachable!, First Floor Gallery, Harare




SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS




2014

Warp & Woof, The Hole, New York



 

Uncertain Terms - WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town 



 

FNB Joburg Art Fair 2014, Johannesburg



 

Meet the Artist Project, Chinembiri Studio, Harare



 

National Gallery of Zimbabwe Annual Show, Harare



 

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London



 

Brand New Second Hand, Vigo Gallery, London



2013

NO LIMITS Exhibition, HIFA, Harare



 

Good News, New University, Lisbon



 

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London



2012

Berliner Lister Art Fair, Berlin



 

Family, Tradition and Religion, Gallery Delta, Harare



 

Wars/Karas: Octopus Projects, Riga



 

A Tale of Two Cities, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare/Bulawayo



 

Inexactly This, Kunstvlaai Festival of Independents, Amsterdam



 

Chiso: Face Collaborative Exhibition, First Floor Gallery Harare



 

Harare Haarare! Collaborative Exhibition, First Floor Gallery, Harare



2011

Harare International Festival of Art, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare



 

Harare Paris, Pavé d'Orsay, Paris



 

Rangu Izwi, First Floor Gallery, Harare



 

Mbare Kutapira (Sweet Mare), First Floor Gallery, Harare/ Chinembiri Studios



 

Still life Exhibition, Delta Gallery, Harare



 

Harare Beyond Words, Gallery H, Bangkok



2010

Live and Direct, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare



 

Young Artist Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare



 

Avignon University Group Show, Avignon



 

Facet: Zimbabwe Now Art Competition and Exhibition, Delta Gallery, Harare



 

First Steps, First Floor Gallery, Harare



2009

Young Artist Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare



 

Enriching Woman, Gallery Delta, Harare



 

Peace through Unity in Diversity, Gallery Delta, Harare



 

Walls: Berlin Wall Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Delta, Harare




Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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