Brighton Sango
Sculptor · Zimbabwe · 1958–1995
Brighton Sango forged his own path: He was one of the few sculptors in Zimbabwe who worked almost entirely in the abstract.
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AbstractSerpentine30 × 28 × 17 cmPrice upon requestWe would be happy to show you the artwork in our gallery in Brienz—even outside of regular hours, if you'd like.
Biography
Brighton Sango was born in 1958 in Guruve, in northern Zimbabwe. He began his career in Tengenenge but stayed there only a few months. His early works were strongly influenced by Bernard Matemera. “My work was too heavily influenced by others,” he said later. “I now work with the idea that every day is a new beginning.”
Without any formal artistic training, he developed his own abstract visual language, featuring flat planes and shifts in direction, as is typically seen in steel sculptures. In 1987, the author F. Mor called him “the most interesting and promising member of the new group.” In 1994, the critic Lionel Philips wrote that Sango seemed like a follower of Cubism, yet had never had any contact with Western art.
Brighton Sango died in August 1995.
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