Looting and 4x4's
Friday, June 23, 2006
Dear Friends
Same weeks ago Art Effects where stolen from the NationalGallery of Zimbabwe in Harare and only to come out in the FINGAZ [Zimbabwe's Financial Gazette]. All our efforts are defeated of calling on the western world to return all our our art effects housed in their so called Museums today. Its high time we should call upon all our Museum directors to stop buying BIG 4X4 and invest the Moneyzie in Sucurying the Gallerys from lotters.According to the information in Harare right now they are saying SHONA HEADRESTS AND NIGERIAN MASKS and other things got stolen from the permanent collection.The Value of these stolen art effects its not disclossed.Same two years ago we have seen the new Director buying a big 4x4 which is worth a lot of money and the National Gallery during that period in time wasstruggling for salaries.I call upon all Zimbabwean artists to stand up and say no to greed people with self intrests, we have no idea of what is left in our permanent collection as we are talking now.
Should a true Zimbabwean concerned keep their mouth shut???????? Enough is enough guys we must stand up. Chirikure Chirikure said in his poem,Gore riya wakatuka Mbuya, tikazvi nyarara, Riyagore ukarova Baba tikazvinyarara rinogore Kuitira svina mustime tsvina mustime.Rinogore hariperi tisina kuzvipedza.Kuana kukadoka kuchaedza chete.Should we keepour mouth shut? This could happend to your Museum or Gallery please lets unite against buying big cars at the expense of the gallery security.
many thanks
raphael chikukwa
Same weeks ago Art Effects where stolen from the NationalGallery of Zimbabwe in Harare and only to come out in the FINGAZ [Zimbabwe's Financial Gazette]. All our efforts are defeated of calling on the western world to return all our our art effects housed in their so called Museums today. Its high time we should call upon all our Museum directors to stop buying BIG 4X4 and invest the Moneyzie in Sucurying the Gallerys from lotters.According to the information in Harare right now they are saying SHONA HEADRESTS AND NIGERIAN MASKS and other things got stolen from the permanent collection.The Value of these stolen art effects its not disclossed.Same two years ago we have seen the new Director buying a big 4x4 which is worth a lot of money and the National Gallery during that period in time wasstruggling for salaries.I call upon all Zimbabwean artists to stand up and say no to greed people with self intrests, we have no idea of what is left in our permanent collection as we are talking now.
Should a true Zimbabwean concerned keep their mouth shut???????? Enough is enough guys we must stand up. Chirikure Chirikure said in his poem,Gore riya wakatuka Mbuya, tikazvi nyarara, Riyagore ukarova Baba tikazvinyarara rinogore Kuitira svina mustime tsvina mustime.Rinogore hariperi tisina kuzvipedza.Kuana kukadoka kuchaedza chete.Should we keepour mouth shut? This could happend to your Museum or Gallery please lets unite against buying big cars at the expense of the gallery security.
many thanks
raphael chikukwa
posted by Robert Sloon at 5:26 PM
6 Comments:
they sound confused enough to give us funding for our biennale, even if they did it by mistake
It's not a biennale, dammit! It's a... it's a... it's what it is....
its a bird...its a plane...no it is a biennale
ok,perspective time.......almost two million people are starving to death in Zim right now..under our noses.Not on the brink of starvation but actually starving.With this in mind it is very hard to care about some artifacts in a museum, and worrying about who owns a 4x4 is frankly irrelevant.Yes Zimbabweans should stand up - and so should all of us -for the return of human rights and for basic survival...concern for dusty objects in a museum is fairly disgraceful in this context I think you'll agree.
If I had the opperturnity to be the director of a third world art museum I would also want to drive a 4x4. And since no one cares about Africa's cultural heritage, I might also turn a blind eye to its pilfering by Europeans.
So anonymous, what are you doing about the plight of your neighbours? Posting little glib pseudo-liberal squeaks of outrage on a pathetic blog? Are you standing with a placard in front of the Zimbabwean High Commission in the rain? Knitting socks for HIV+ Zimbabweans? Are you sleeping with HIV+ Zimbabweans? Do you read the Mail and Guardian and get indignant?
miss thandi you are a very strange, and i suspect dim-witted character, whom i find mildly vexatious, i am tempted to respond to you by - firstly, pointing out that sleeping with people who are HIV+ helps nobody, and secondly that socks are not edible, and thirdly that the mail and guardian makes everyone indignant from time to time but at the end of the day it's just a tabloid that's easier to hold so it's not worth worrying about - but i'm afraid that i am too tied up with lobbying the UN, strategically petitioning various world leaders, taking to the streets and protesting, and disseminating as much information to as many people as possible before it's too late. This is not really a complaint you understand, I don't mind being one of the few who will stick their neck out so that the many like you can continue thumbing through their 4x4 catalogues over coffee in Cavendish...just please leave us alone to get on with the more important things in life.
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