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   [Date]: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 02:30:08 PST
   [From]: Fons Geerlings <fonsgeerlings@hotmail.com>
     [To]: forum1@hkw.kbx.de
[Subject]: Dar es Salaam in Delft Blue- virtual photo exhibtion

Amsterdam, 24 december 1999

Amsterdam/Netherlands, 23rd December 1999
Press release:  Dar es Salaam in Delft Blue
latest virtual (photo-) exhibition of the foundation Africaserver
http://www.africaserver.nl/fahari

Different cultures, identical longing. Ordinary people with their favourite 
object portrayed in the streets of Dar es Salaam. Touching and disarming 
pictures framed in the renowned old fashioned (17th century Dutch) Delft 
Blue tiles.
Late 1998 young Amsterdam photographer/filmmaker Barend Schweigman taught 
photography at a local institution in the Tanzanian capital.
A clash of cultures became inevitable. However step by step friends
introduced him into the African culture; he managed to portray people in his 
neighbourhood.
The differences disappeared, the longings turned out to be universal.
The exhibition shows 14 lightblue coloured images of youngsters, men and 
women who state their desire in one sentence framed in a Delft Blue tile.
The exhibition is in three language versions: English, Swahili and Dutch.

Meanwhile Barend Schweigman is staying in Dar es Salaam.
The virtual exhibition will be online from 23th of December 1999 onward.

I hope you are able to pay attention to this original exhibition. Pictures 
are available.
In case you wish to make a link, feel free to do. We appreciate you to 
inform us.

Dar es Salaam in Delft Blue is the first picture exhibition and the 7th 
exhibition in the series African artistst living in Holland / artists 
inspired by Africa. In the recent past the foundation Africa Server 
published virtual presentations of work of painters from Mozambique (group 
exhibition of the collective Nucleo de Arte-Arms into Art), Angola 
(Antognoni Brunhoso), Benin (Gaba Meschac), South Africa (Dominic 
Tshabangu), Senegal (Max Diop) and Mali (Hama Goro).
See http://www.africaserver.nl/virtual/index.html


With kind regards,
Fons Geerlings, director
info@africaserver.nl