São Paulo – After being exhibited in 10 large cities worldwide, exhibition "The Desert is Not Silent”, with archaeological items and contemporary Libyan canvases, is reaching São Paulo. Brought by the Gaddafi International Foundation for Charitable Associations and coordinated by architect and artist Saif El Islam El Gaddafi, son of the leader of the Arab country, Muammar El Gaddafi, the exhibition should be opened on March 9th, at the Afro Brazil Museum, in São Paulo.
The exhibition should bring together 28 Greco-Roman items and 51 canvases by contemporary painters, and the Brazilian curator is Emanoel Araújo. All the items are part of the archaeological assets of the country, including mosaics and objects of the daily life of Libya. The canvases, which are mostly oil, bring figurative themes and abstracts of the desert, a crossroads, a memory, a source of life.
One of the three painters, author of most of the canvases, 39 in total, is Saif El Islam El Gaddafi himself, and the others are by Fawzi Swei and Salaheddine Shagroun. The travelling exhibition, which should be in São Paulo up to April 18th, has already been shown in Paris, Berlin, London, Rome, Milan, Geneva, Vienna, Madrid, Tokyo and Montreal.
According to the organizers of the event, the audience will have an opportunity to learn a little more about the riches and the historic past of Libya and its contemporary art. Located in North Africa, the Arab country is among the largest in extension on the Arab continent. With a population of 6.4 million inhabitants, Libya has the eight main oil reserves in the world.
Among the archaeological items visitors may see are arrow heads, aging back to between 6000 and 2000 b.C, marble statues of a nude Dionysus, Islamic lamps from Tripoli and a sun dial from Leptis Magma, in the first century a.C
For the opening of the exhibition, a group of Libyan artists is coming to Brazil to present the popular music of their country. Gaddafi International Foundation for Charitable Associations, the organizer of the event, is headquartered in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, and its objective is to fight for human rights, against poverty and for aid to prisoners of war.
In Brazil, the exhibit is sponsored by Odebrecht and co-sponsored by Petrobras.
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"The Desert is Not Silent"
Date: March 9th to April 18th
Time: Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Site: Afro Brazil Museum
Address: Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/n – Ibirapuera Park
*Translated by Mark Ament
