UNHCR Spanish Committee Online Benefit Auction
Published January 27th, 2009
The ACNUR/UNHCR Spanish committee is organizing an exhibition and online auction, titled Refugi@rte, at an exhibition space owned by BBVA. This artistic project gathers 50 works of art made by 39 internationally recognized such artists including Miquel Barcelo, Eduardo Chillida, Joan Genoves, Antoni Tapies, Antonio Saura, Cristina Iglesias and Manolo Valdes, among others and finishes on the 29 of January.
The initiative has received collaboration from artists, art galleries, BBVA and TV presenter and ACNUR/UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jesús Vázquez, who has supported and promoted the event.
The funds collected from the auction of the works of art will be destined to finance ACNUR projects to palliate hunger in refugee camps in Kenya, Chad, Ethiopia and Darfur.
The exhibition of the works to be auctioned includes ceramics by Eduardo Arroyo and Pérez Villalta; an etching by Miquel Barceló, Lanzarote 23; a serigraph by Eduardo Chillida; two acrylic paintings by Joan Genovés: Comet and Decisions; two handmade lithographs by Josep M. Guinovart.
The online auction will be held at www.socialbid.es/ACNUR
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (established December 14, 1950) is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.
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