Goncalo Mabunda PRICE CHARTS
Born 1975 Maputo. Known for: Weapon symbol sculpture, drawing.
Lots Sold: 50%, High Price: Subscribe.
Gonçalo Mabunda works on the memory of his country, Mozambique, which emerged in 1995 from a long and bloody civil war started in the mid Seventies. With a childhood marked by the violence and... Read full biography
Gonçalo Mabunda works on the memory of his country, Mozambique, which emerged in 1995 from a long and bloody civil war started in the mid Seventies. With a childhood marked by the violence and absurdity of this war, Gonçalo Mabunda joined the studio Núcleo de Arte to take part, in 1998, in the... Read full biography
Gonçalo Mabunda works on the memory of his country, Mozambique, which emerged in 1995 from a long and bloody civil war started in the mid Seventies. With a childhood marked by the violence and absurdity of this war, Gonçalo Mabunda joined the studio Núcleo de Arte to take part, in 1998, in the project of transformation of the weapons retrieved at the end of the civil war into art objects. He gives AK 47s, rocket launchers, guns and other destruction objects an anthropomorphic shape. This... Read full biography
Gonçalo Mabunda works on the memory of his country, Mozambique, which emerged in 1995 from a long and bloody civil war started in the mid Seventies. With a childhood marked by the violence and absurdity of this war, Gonçalo Mabunda joined the studio Núcleo de Arte to take part, in 1998, in the project of transformation of the weapons retrieved at the end of the civil war into art objects. He gives AK 47s, rocket launchers, guns and other destruction objects an anthropomorphic shape. This material reincarnation of violent instruments into aesthetic objects with an inoffensive appearance carries with it the account of the absurdity of the civil war that divided the country. The mechanics of deconstruction and reconstruction at work in... Read full biography
Gonçalo Mabunda works on the memory of his country, Mozambique, which emerged in 1995 from a long and bloody civil war started in the mid Seventies. With a childhood marked by the violence and absurdity of this war, Gonçalo Mabunda joined the studio Núcleo de Arte to take part, in 1998, in the project of transformation of the weapons retrieved at the end of the civil war into art objects. He gives AK 47s, rocket launchers, guns and other destruction objects an anthropomorphic shape. This material reincarnation of violent instruments into aesthetic objects with an inoffensive appearance carries with it the account of the absurdity of the civil war that divided the country. The mechanics of deconstruction and reconstruction at work in Mabunda's drawings are perceived through his thrones, the archetypal attributes of power, which earned him an international recognition. Made fromCMOOA... Read full biography
Goncalo Mabunda - Charts
Chart data loaded successfully
