Celeste Cambaza : Art Through Mozambican Female Heart

Art Through Mozambican Female Heart

in continent of africa we need more women engaging in art field,
in the country where im from Mozambique, we even need more because barely you do not see female artist don't basically exist, I believe woman have a great potential in expressing in huge way in art.
What i feel is necessary to do is to give women more space, more opportunity so she can be free to choose where she want to explore.
in this post i choosed two visual art Mozambican artists that i like their works, is Olga Dengo, explores more abstraction, and Reinata Sadimba in ceramic sculpture. Reinata works and live in mozambique while Olga works and live in Belgium Antwerp.

visual art

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking and architecture. Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.
Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied, decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the Arts and Crafts Movement and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' was often restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms. Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of the arts.

Reinata Sadimba

Reinata Sadimba Artwork

Reinata Sadimba was born in 1945 in the village of Nemu, Mozambique. Daughter of farmers she first received the traditional Makonde education that included making utilitary objects in clay.
Although the Makondes attribute the main part in society to women, in Mozambique, and also in Tanzania, sculpturing is still a "man's job". Maybe that is the reason why no one took Reinata Sadimba 's art too seriously at first. Reinata Sadimba at her studio
However, in 1975 she initiates a deep transformation in her ceramics becoming known worldwide by her "weird and fantastic forms". Reinata Sadimba is now considered one of the most important women artists of the entire African Continent. She has received several prizes, exhibited her work in Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal or Denmark and her work is represented in several institutions from the National Museum of Mozambique, to the portuguese Ethnographic Museum or Culturgest Modern Art Collection, and in numerous private collections around the world. via :