29 Sep Victor Nyakauru Shines At Sculpture Symposium
Artist Victor Nyakauru recently attended the International Sculpture Symposium in Icheon, South Korea where he represented Zimbabwe at this international platform of idea exchange and exposition of zeitgeist.
Nyakauru had submitted three sketches of the prospective work to the organisers of the International Sculpture Symposium chose an all too familiar sketch which was one he had executed in the form of a frog at the Vanishing Wetlands fund-raiser which was held in Harare in June of this year.
Thereafter the Instructor in Sculpture at the National Gallery School of Visual Art and Design set off to South Korea where he worked on a sculpture in 22 days that is now displayed in Seoulbong Park in Icheon. There the 2,1 metre sculpture of a woman pulling a travelling bag entitled “Travel Lady” strides gracefully in granite and stainless steel. The work expresses the cosmopolitan experience and according to Nyakauru’s deduction, women travel more than men.”The idea of an object in supposed motion seemed to have had a natural energy ingrained in it to the location the sculptures are located” said Nyakauru.
“The Seoulbong Park carries 17 years-worth of sculpture and attracts art lovers from all over the world. Having ‘Travel Lady’ located in this park which attracts multitudes of tourists would identify with the traveller. It somehow stresses the universality of art with no regards for whichever place it is located.”
