Zim Now Writer
The late Sylvester Mubayi, who died on Tuesday, will be laid to rest at Chihota Reserves on Friday December 16 at 14:00hrs.
Mubayi died on Tuesday night around 1030pm at Citimed Hospital in Chitungwiza after a short illness.
His body will be taken to his home at 10990 Nehanda Road Zengeza 4, Chitungwiza today, where it will stay overnight before being transported for burial.
Mubayi was one of Zimbabwe’s finest artists who belonged to the famous First-Generation sculptors.
Mubayi was born in 1942 in the Chihota Communal lands near Marondera, Mashonaland East Province.
He joined the Tengenenge Sculpture Community in 1967 as one of its first members, and later worked at the Workshop School in Vukutu, Nyanga that was founded by Frank McEwen, the first director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Mubayi, who was named in the top ten sculptors in the world by The Guardian in 1991, also served as an artist-in-residence at the Chapungu Sculpture Park and his works are flaunted in several world museums, galleries, universities, and public places.
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