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Brighton Sango Brighton Sango was born in 1958 in the Northern area of Guruve and has remained in the beautiful rural surroundings of his home.
He was an important member of the Second Generation. His work is a source of interesting debate as to the future of Zimbabwean sculpture. His career as an artist began at the Tengenenge Sculpture Community where he was inspired by Bernard Matemera. However, he stayed only a few months before removing himself from what he felt to be distraction and possible confusion created by other sculptors. With no artistic education, he made this early decision to avoid outside influence and began, privately, to give voice to his own ideas. He was the only sculptor to be working with purely abstract imagery and as such, has set an important example for young Zimbabwean artists. He was described in 1987, by E Mor in his book Shona Sculpture, as follows: "Brighton Sango has set out on his own path and is today the most interesting and promising of the new group." In a review of the exhibition Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture: The Second Generation, held in England in 1994, Sango's work was highlighted by the art critic Lionel Philips. "... Sango, who is the only Zimbabwean whose work is mainly abstract, appears as a follower of 1930's cubism but he has had, in fact, no exposure to Western art". He worked with relationships of pure form and powerful sculptural mass, he portrayed a wide range of ideas; often of figurative origin, but sometimes with emotional and intellectual concepts at its core. Brighton employed contemporary and international techniques and worked with a conviction unhindered by precedents set by the First Generation. "After my experience at Tengenenge I felt I had to change. My work was being too influenced by others. I work now with the idea that every day is new and that your work must reflect this. As a generation, we must be of a different class; we must not repeat the past." Unfortunately Brighton passed away. Artist's Sculpture (Click to view):
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