The Spanish Embassy in collaboration with the Cristobal Gabarron Foundation will today open an itinerant exhibition by Zimbabwean artists in honour of the late Spanish Ambassador, Pilar Fuertes titled “The Spirit of Friendship: Entre Dos Aguas/ Pakati Pemagungwa”, at Joina City in Harare.
Fuertes died in a car accident in Namibia in April this year.
The exhibition of conceptualised paintings by ten top contemporary Zimbabweans will run until Sunday and will mark the late ambassador’s contribution to the promotion of art and culture in Zimbabwe.
The itinerant exhibition will also be shown in galleries in Harare and Bulawayo as well as Spain and United States.
“The exhibition will be bought and donated by this embassy to the Gabarron Foundation in Spain and will become part of its permanent collection where it will remain as a single collection and will be exhibited as a whole in future exhibitions,” said the Spanish Embassy’s cultural attachee, Marina Garcia.
She said a selection committee, composed of art experts from Zimbabwe and Spain, had evaluated and selected the 11 artists who would take part in spreading the art and culture of Zimbabwe.
“The embassy is glad to invite all the friends of the late Ambassador Ms Pilar Fuertes and also those who are interested in Zimbabwean contemporary arts to the opening. Those who live in and around Bulawayo are welcome to attend the opening on June 28 at the National Gallery of Bulawayo.”
The artists included Charles Bhebe, Stephen Garan’anga, Freddy Tauro, John Kotzé, Misheck, Masamvu, Wallen Mapondera, Owen Maseko, Anthony Bumhira, Tafadzwa Gwetai, Tracy Ann Strydom and Belinda Marshall.
