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Show Page 52-T- Provo. Utah, Sunday, April HERALD, HE t. 1980 Rhodesian Peace May Prove Help to African Art Forms - UPIl SALISBURY, Rhodesia Peace in Rhodesia promises a vital new boost for Africa's internationally recognized contemporary art form the mystic carvings of the Shona people. Seven or eight years ago institutions like Museum of Modern Art the Musee Rodin in Paris and London's Institute of Contemporary Art were snapping up the stone sculptures. Then war and international sanctions stifled the art's exuberant vitality. The strange carvings of animal and tribal life with strong spiritual overtones fell to the sidelines of world art circles. "The hard core of six to 10 big names kept on working " said Christopher Till acting director of Rhodesia's people seemed to have no tradition of carving. But in the 1950s an Anglican priest started a workshop at the Serima mission in Victoria Province and encouraged his flock to paint and carve. Later he opened another workshop in Salisbury's black township. Interest was enormous. Artists began to surface. On Tom Blomfield's tobacco farm 90 miles north of Salisbury, the gardener idled away a few hours carving local black serpentine into a piece that staggered Blomf ield, an amateur sculptor himself. He took Lemon Moses' carving to the then director of the National Gallery, Frank McEwen. McEwen himself had discovered an astonishing talent within his own gallery. The head attendant, once a cleaner, started to sculpt and formed the pivot of another workshop of artists at the gallery. Sylvester Mubayi and Thomas Mukarobgwa who is still the gallery's head attendant as well as a major exhibitor, evolved a style that snows a highly spiritual, mystical involvement with tribal life. Mukarobgwa's carvings often portray a figure undergoing a change a halfman half animal or a medium going into a trance. Baboons or creatures in fetal positions are frequent in the work of John and Bernard Takawira. Two other brothers Henry and Edward e are known for modernistic heads with the brooding power of Easter Island sculptures. "Most of the sculptors are Shona." Till said. Shona tribesmen are 80 percent of Rhodesia's people, with Ndebele tribes making up the other 20 percent. "You would never find this among the Ndebele. They do not have the same strong spiritual beliefs the same instinctive artistic affinities." New-York'- s Rhodesia's National Gallery. "But many of the other sculptors fell by the wayside, and we 30-o- had no infusion of new blood. "Rhodesian work was shunned by international exhibitions and art collectors stopped buying here." Now art dealers from abroad are again showing interest and Till is preparing an exhibition of the sculpture at South Africa's huge Rand Show, the first major collection of the carvings to be sent abroad for many years. West Germany and Canada have shown interest in similar shows. A private Los Angeles gallery is preparing an exhibition for May. In Salisbury itself the two leading Shona sculpture galleries report record sales to the recent d visitor flood including foreign observers to the elections the cease-fir- e monitoring force and 600 foreign correspondents. Apart from the beauty of the carvings mostly of hard black serpentine polished to a high glow with oil and hours of rubbing the pieces could prove a sound investment. Even seven years ago, sculptures that sold for $250 to 330 in Salisbury brought $4,400 to $6,600 in f&Wl CALIFORNIA -- Maen-gerer- 200-od- DRESS UP YOUR EASTER DINNER WITH THESE JUICY AND DELICIOUS i CIV A series of international exhibitions in 1960s launched Shona sculpture as a London. Shona sculpture is an art phenomenon, springing seemingly from nothing to international stature in less than 25 years. the early major new art form. "Now we must launch the whole effort, in terms of art, all over again," Till said. STRAWBERRIES Three Mile Island Accident No Major Disaster, Study Claims April 1979 accident, "there would still have been two or three days available for the public to be A new congressional WASHINGTON (UPI) Mile Island accieven Three if the that study says dent had spawned a dreaded fuel meltdown, there would have been a two or three day cushion to evacuated." Among its major findings, the report said the defense-in-dept- h concept of overlapping reactor safety systems worked during the accident and human health was never threatened. "Three Mile Island was a serious accident, but not a serious threat to human health." said Rep. Mike McCormack, the subcommittee chairman. evacuate nearby residents. The report issued by the House Science and Technology Committee has concluded Three Mile Island was not a major disaster. 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