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Painting on Glass:Muwonge Transforming an alien art form: E-mail
By Lugonvu Moses
For a couple of centuries, the art of painting on glass has been entirely for
religious architectural settings, especially churches. You could hardly find
stained glass art works in Uganda in any building with no religious
inclination. All this is now history, as a revolution is on to introduce this
art form into secular environments as championed by Muwonge Mathias Kyazze.
Muwonge has been a practicing artist for nearly two decades. He holds a
Masters’ Degree in Fine Art and a higher Diploma in Stained Glass. To him,
stained glass is just another form/medium for artistic expression through which
he has executed works on diverse subjects both religious and secular. Muwonge’s
mission is to create awareness that this art form exists outside religious
environments by which it has been imprisoned for centuries.
He has put up several solo and group exhibitions in Uganda, Europe and America.
His Stained glass works done from Nsambya Stained glass workshop, a Catholic
Church founded project, have been installed in various churches across the
great lakes region. However, his most outstanding works were installed in Biina
Church – Luzira Kampala in 2000. In these works, he skillfully presented
Biblical stories using Ugandan cultural forms like “Ekyoto” (fire place) which
is just a small unit of a several metre artistic story line.
Away from Stained glass glazing, Muwonge also commands an incredible mastery of
painting with oils on canvas. For both media (stained glass and oils), he
derives his subjects from Ugandan life styles. “ I always want my stained
glass paintings to look Ugandan to reflect the rich social-cultural Ugandan art
forms” says Muwonge. This ideology is tremendously manifested in his works like
“Busuuti” (Ganda attire), “Bakisiimba” (ganda dance), “Okwanjula”
(Introduction) and “Mothery”.
Muwonge is not bound by any specific palette but rather works with a prolific
mastery of colour themes based on subject matter. However, he uses very bright
colours to make the works attractive and inviting, which reflect the life
styles of Ugandans and the warm weather. In his works “self” and “style”, he
creates an exciting mood using semi-abstract forms and lovely colours.
All said and done, Muwonge Kyazze is a man on a mission to “bring home” stained
glass and in so doing, is producing many portable art works for various
architectural setting as a way of exposing this art form. He is also teaching
this subject at a University level in order to tap fresh talent. Muwonge is
slowly transforming the once alien Christian art into a contemporary medium of
artistic expression.
Keep the fire burning, Mwami Muwonge!
source:
www.thepromota.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=342&Itemid=45
ps: if you buy a $100 Buganda certificate from me, you get this issue of The
Promota free as a thank you gift. Here is the cover:
www.thepromota.co.uk/index.php?option=com_magazine&Itemid=1
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