HUMANA ALERT
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HUMANA’S NEW MONEY-SPINNER: SELLING AFRICA’S ART
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May 2006: The Tvind Teachers Group, which runs Humana, is rapidly expanding a new money-making enterprise: selling art by African sculptors at high prices to collectors in Europe, the United States and even Russia.
‘ Friends Forever’, based in eastern Zimbabwe near Humana’s African headquarters, may at first sight seem like a humanitarian cause, but on close inspection looks highly commercial. Specially-commissioned art by Zimbabwean sculptors is being put up for sale by Tvind at prices up to 10,000 euros each.
Exhibitions of the art have already been staged in the USA, Spain, Austria and the Netherlands, with shows currently under way in Italy and the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow. The sculptures are also for sale on the organisation’s website.
The new organisation makes much of its association with Humana, but in fact there is no mention of any humanitarian purpose, nor is it clear how much of the profits will be passed on to the African artists.
The evidence, instead, points to ‘Friends Forever’ being yet another Tvind money-spinning business. It’s curator, Sune Jørgensen, is a long-standing member of the Tvind Teachers Group, and president for many years of Tvind’s Arts Association of March 85. Sculpture sales have been put on by Humana Italy and Humana Spain, and in the USA, a recent Friends Forever exhibition was mounted in co-operation with Garson and Shaw, the Tvind-run used-clothes trading enterprise.
Eight members of the Tvind Teachers Group are currently on trial in Denmark accused of £10 million tax fraud and embezzlement in connection with allegedly non-existent charities in Britain, France, Malaysia and other countries.
FRIENDS FOREVER: THE TG CONNECTION
Who really runs ‘Friends Forever’? The organisation’s website, www.foreverfriendszimbabwe.com was registered last year by someone using the email friis@e-advice.dk. E-Advice is another Tvind company, which collects and sells old computers.
It gets better. We know the ‘friis’ is almost certainly Jesper Friis, a Tvind teacher who is the registered contact for several other Tvind websites including UFF in Norway and Humana in Spain. He is associated with Juelsminde, Tvind’s former school in Denmark, and also uses the email friis@humana.org.
‘Friends Forever is not just connected to Tvind – it is Tvind!
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