(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 15 - Italy has taken in Afghan artist
Rahraw Omarzad, Culture Minister Dario Francschini announced
Friday after the artist, lecturer, curator and leading light on
Afghan's creative scene touched down with his family in Rome.
Franceschini said Italy was offering Omarzad sanctuary "in
defence of creative freedom".
Omarzad will settle in Turin where he will collaborate with the
Castello di Rivoli contemporary art museum and lecture at the
Accademia Albertina.
"This is a concrete gesture which also has symbolic value in
defence of creative freedoms all over the world," said
Franceschini.
"It is another step by the Italian cultural world in a
longstanding show of sympathy for the Afghan people."
Omarzad, 57, is an Afghan writer, artist, lecturer and an expert
on Afghan modern art.
Until the Taliban takeover he was the founding director of the
Centre for Contemporary Art Afghanistan (CCAA), a lecturer at
Kabul University and editor in chief of Gahnama-e-Hunar Art
Magazine. (ANSA).
Italy takes in Afghan artist Omarzad
Sanctuary in defence of creative freedom says Franceschini