GENEVA (REUTERS).- Saif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi trying to negotiate safe passage to the International Criminal Court from a refuge in the Sahara, was once on a mission to put Libya on the cultural map — by exhibiting his own paintings. The late Libyan leader’s would-be heir launched a touring exhibition of Libyan antiquities and contemporary art called “The Desert Is Not Silent” in London’s upmarket Kensington in 2002 which was dominated by his paintings. The show was scheduled to go to Paris, Geneva, Berlin, Tokyo, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Moscow. “Not only do we buy weapons and sell gas and oil, but we have culture, art and history,” Saif al-Islam, who studied at the London School of Economics and portrayed himself as a patron of the arts, said in a statement at the time. A website set up by Saif al-Islam’s Gaddafi International Charity and Development