Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was honoured for his role in the liberation of Mzansi and his fight against social injustice.
Tutu and his wife Leah attended the Freedom Day event at the Old Granary building in Cape Town.
The event was organised by the Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation where photographer and artist Benny Gool handed them photographs and paintings.
Gool who used to photograph Tutu in the 80’s and artist Richard Scott presented a box full of various pictures of Tutu and his wife.
They handed over the archbishop a “Tutu Art Box” containing a photobook of pop-art interpretations of Gool’s historic photographs of Archbishop Tutu.
When the pink leather box was opened, it contained a book with photographs by Gool and paintings and photographs by Scott.
The foreword of a book was done by business mogul Sir Richard Branson.
“Thank you very much for the book,” Tutu said after the book was presented to him.
The launch of the Art Box precedes a full-scale exhibition of Gool and Scott’s work, to be unveiled at Artscape Theatre in Cape Town in August.
Speaking during the event, Roger Friedman from the Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation said: “Benny chatted to Richard and suggested that they collaborate in some way, and this gathering today is the outcome of that process.
We discussed the project with Archbishop, and we brought the Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation on board as the beneficiary of the sale.”
The photobook also comprises of the statements made by Tutu for the past 20 years.
The chairperson of the Tutu Foundation Marlene Le Roux thanked the artists for taking time to bring the box together.
“To the artist I want to say thank you. The Tutu box is more than just a box, but it is about us talking about our humanity,” said Le Roux.
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