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The National Gallery of Zimbabwe will today and tomorrow hold two sessions of the Harare Conversations on the Basket Case exhibition. Harare Conversations are the gallery’s initiative to discuss the relevant and upcoming issues with regards to contemporary art, design and craft by providing a meeting point for art sector professionals, administrators, artists and members of public.
Co-curators of the exhibition, Christine Eyene and Raphael Chikukwa will facilitate the conversations that will start at 10am with featured artists giving their views on their working experience on the project.
They will also give the public an insight on what their artwork stands for and its relevance with regards to Creative Industry in Zimbabwe.
The Basket Case II is a European Union funded project that incorporates the European Union National Institutions for Culture, namely the British Council of the United Kingdom, Alliance Francais of France as well as the Goethe Institute of Germany.
Artists on the exhibition are Ifeoma Anyaeji (Nigeria), Delaine Le Bas (United Kingdom), Alexandra Bircken and Sebastian Herkner (Germany), Matali Crasset and Michel Paysant (France) and our own Tapfuma Gutsa.
Each artist carries their own signature style and represents a diverse intermeshing of disciplines from art, fashion, design to craft.
The public will have the opportunity to inquire the artists on their work and guiding philosophies.
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