Gareth Nyandoro is noted for his large works on paper, which often
spill out of their two-dimensional format and into installations
that include paper scraps and objects found in the street markets
of Harare, where he lives and works. The artist's primary source of
inspiration is the rapidly changing urban and cultural panorama of
Zimbabwe. Inspired by his training as a printmaker, and derived
from etching, the artist's distinctive technique, 'Kucheka-cheka',
is named after the infinitive and present tense declinations of the
Shona verb 'cheka', which means 'to cut'. This, the artist's first
monograph, documents selected bodies of work created since 2015 and
presented in exhibitions at venues including the Palais de Tokyo,
Paris, Quetzal Art Centre, Portugal, Tiwani Contemporary, London,
Modern Art Oxford, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten,
Amsterdam. The publication features an introduction by curator
Adelaide Blanc, who curated Nyandoro's 2017 solo exhibition
'Stall(s) of Fame' at the Palais de Tokyo. The publication also
includes a newly commissioned essay from Cape Town-based writer,
critic, and editor Sean O'Toole, which discusses notions of
'cutting' and 'spilling' in Nyandoro's practice against a backdrop
of both Zimbabwe's colonial past and 'southern urbanism' - city
life in the global South. Gareth Nyandoro was born in 1982 in
Bikita, Zimbabwe. He lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Recent
solo exhibitions include '...Read All About', Van Doren Waxter, New
York (2018); 'Stall(s) of Fame', Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017);
'Stall(s) of Fame', Tiwani Contemporary, London (2017). Selected
group exhibitions include 'Par Amour du Jeu', Magasins Generaux,
Paris (2018); 'Drawing Africa on the Map', Quetzal Art Centre,
Portugal (2018); 'Five Bhobh - Painting at the End of an Era',
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2018); 'Kaleidoscope', Modern Art Oxford
(2016) and 'Paper Cut', Tiwani Contemporary, London (2016).
Nyandoro won the FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices award in 2016
and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten,
Amsterdam, in 2014-15. The publication, launched alongside a solo
presentation of work by the artist at Art Basel Miami Beach in
December 2019, is produced by Tiwani Contemporary with generous
support from the A. G. Leventis Foundation, allowing for the
production of artists' books and their dissemination to libraries
and institutions across the globe. Designed by Joe Gilmore and
co-published with Anomie Publishing, the series is distributed
internationally by Casemate Art.
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