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Argentine Ambassador to Vietnam- Mr Alberto J. Kaminker visits Hanoi Mural

On 23rd June, 2009, Mr. Alberto J. Kaminker - Argentine Ambassador to Việt Nam, has visited and talked to the artists of the Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural...
Ambassador Alberto J. Kaminker visits the Hanoi Mural.

To commemorate the 1000th Anniversary of the Vietnam's Capital in 2010, the Hanoian artists have proposed the project Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural (HCM). On the other end of the Earth, the people Argentina is also towards to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Revolution on the 25th May 1810, when the first Patriotic Government was installed, was the starting point for the following Independence, declared in 1816.

Ambassador Alberto J. Kaminker visits the studio of the Hanoi Mural.

Thanks to the information through the Internet, Argentine artist Sonja Vitulic has had inspirited a similar art work for her Rawson City to celebrate the two Centuries of the independent Argentina. Sonja Vitulic has contacted the colleagues from the Vietnamese HCM and got back the strong support in the diffusion of her initiative.

In an email to the Hanoi Artists, Sonja Vitulic talked about the beginning of the Ceramic Mural “Rawson in the Bicentennial”: "Yesterday, I've an interview with the Rawson City Mayor ADRIÁN LÓPEZ (the first person who knows our project).I began to say: "It's urgent! Hanoi Artists want to send us about 10 square meters of ceramic tiles!". He said:"What? What are you talking about?" And I began to explain...He was so excited and amazing about this! Today afternoon, I'll have other interview to keep close some details: provincial government interaction for example, then, we'll make the official announcement. I don't know the best way to say: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! With all my heart !".

In another email, she said: "I've wanted to say again: thank you very much, to all Hanoi Artists. Next week we'll determine the location place of Bicentennial Mural. Maybe, there will be several places (close each to other) in the Central Park with Public Buildings around. Now, everybody wants the Mural and give ideas to place it. And all thank to Hanoi Artists. When I explained about your present, a gift from other side of the world, everybody take real dimension about the Mural importance. So, your help is fundamental".

Meanwhile, Sonja Vitulic has contacted with Vietnamese Embassy to Argentina and Argentine Embassy to Vietnam. And, in just a week after his arrival in Vietnam as the Argentine Ambassador, Mr. Alberto J. Kaminker has visited the Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural. Visiting to the site of the HCM, Mr. Ambassador said he will do his best to push the collaboration between the artists of the "sister" projects. "These projects have the significances not only in the short time - said Mr. A.J. Kaminker - but in another hundred years or maybe more".