28 - Friday, December 19, 1986 - North Shore News

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ORGANIZERS ARE today un-
packing about 60 verdite sculptures
that will be shown in Canada for
the first time from Dec. 21-23 at
the International Plaza Hotel.

Organizer Stuart Brazier ex-
plained the sculptures of verdite --
an extremely hard green stone
found only in certain parts of
Africa --- come in all sizes.

“‘There’s one that is five feet
high and weighs 150 kilograms,”’
he said.

Found only in Zimbabwe and
Zambia, the semi-precious stone is
very difficult to carve, its hardness
requiring great skill for the
sculptor to master.

Historically, African art has not
included carving. The tribal
lifestyle, he explained, was a
communal way of living —
everything done by the whole
group.

“Because of the tribal inclina-
tion carving was a no-no,”’ Brazier
explained.

“In that part of the world carv-
ing is not popular — it’s very an-
tisocial.”’

But in recent years, the gov-
ernment of Zimbabwe has en-
couraged sculptures with the cre-
ation of the National Gallery of
Zimbabwe, where the works were
shown.

When the gallery opened, there
was almost no indigenous art in
Zimbabwe. At first, the - pieces
were carved in wood, then in
soapstone and then later in the
harder native materials such as the

- stones verdite, serpentine and
steatite.

Brazier puts sculpture into two
categories — tourist junk and real
art.

The International Plaza Hotel
exhibition, he said, features the
real art — all of the pieces have
been shown in the National Gallery
and around the world.

The weighty. exhibit is being
flown from Zimbabwe's capital ci-
ty of Harare to Amsterdam and
then on to North Vancouver fcr a
show before going to Texas.

Each of the works, in what is
called the green stone of Africa,

has a fitting African theme. Artists
have captured their country in
their sculptures.

“There's also going to be
animals and abstracts,’’ explained
Brazier. ‘‘There are elephants and
I think there’s going to be a life-
sized wart-hog as well.

“This is not your typical curio
type of junk, this is high-class
art,’ said Brazier, who put the
prices at $500-$15,000 ‘‘These are

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