Gonçalo Mabunda

Gonçalo Mabunda (dem born am 1 January 1975 insyd Maputo, Mozambique) be a Mozambican artist den anti-war activist. Mabunda exhibit important museums such as de Center Pompidou insyd Paris, de Venice Biennale, de Museum of Art and Design insyd New York, Gangwon International Biennale insyd South Korea, de Museum Kunst Palast insyd Düsseldorf, de Hayward Gallery insyd London, de Mori Art Museum insyd Tokyo, de Johannesburg Art Gallery, de Tropen Museum insyd Amsterdam, Norway Army Museum, Netherlands Army Museum, Sweden Army Museum, den chaw more.

Mabunda start ein work insyd de context of a project dem implement insyd 1995, by de Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM) wey na he dey scoure de country den dey collect weapons from individuals den communities after a civil war wey last almost twenty years. Insyd dis project na dem destroy sam weapons while odas be deactivated wey dem give to men den women like Mabunda, make he sculpt into art. Sam dem collect 800,000 weapons since de CCM launch dis project, dem call Transforming Guns into Hopes.

De name be inspired by a Bible verse wey komot de book of Micah: 'They will hammer their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks'.

Mabunda be a partner artist of de African Artists for Development, an organisation wey dey back community development projects dem associate plus works by contemporary artists.

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 https://web.archive.org/web/20250101172119/http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/international/mozam.html
 http://www.ecfa.com/goncalo-mabunda Archived 27 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine
 http://ames.afrique.free.fr/mabunda/index.html
 http://www.magnin-a.com/cspdocs/press/files/2016_11_17_lefigaromagazine_ventepiasa_hazoume_mabunda.pdf Archived 19 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine
 http://www.lumieresdafriques.com/fr/artist/goncalo-mabunda-2/ Archived 28 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine

Category:Human
Category:Mozambican artists
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Category:Mozambican sculptors
Category:War artists
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Category:People wey komot Maputo