Tafadzwa Gwetai.

Tafadzwa Gwetai Assistant Curator. Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015. Pixels of Ubuntu/ Unhu. Exploring the Social and Cultural Identities of the 21st Century.

Tafadzwa Gwetai is a Zimbabwean visual artist, painter, sculptor and emerging curator. He holds a Btech; Creative Art & Design (hons) Degree from the University of Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe. Gwetai has been actively involved in the arts since 2001. He has participated in various local as well as international exhibitions including, Between the Sheets Artists Books (Gallery East, Australia), and the exhibition, Colour Africa (Munich). He has also had four solo exhibitions to date, with the most recent being, “Con artist- The purpose of illusion” (2014) “Aesthetic Codes: When Science meets Art” (2012). He reintroduces and redefines mathematics with science and logic to create a new language. A language that challenges the very core of industry and its relevance to mankind. He views our existence as having been transformed into a virtual reality based paper work and documentation.

Tafadzwa Gwetai explores the human condition and how mankind has redefined themselves and their basic existence. Existentialist philosophy such as that of Rene Descartes and Plato who challenged the existence of man and founded the concept of ‘I think therefore I am’. This influenced his line of thought to that of challenging the purpose and meaning of mankind’s existence.