Tehran to exhibit modern Japanese paintings

The Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum is to mount an exhibition of modern Japanese paintings of the 1990s, in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Painting for Joy will display some 30 works by young Japanese artists, who were in their 30s during the 1990s.

The exhibition, to be held from Nov. 19 to Dec. 2, 2009, will present paintings by highly acclaimed artists such as Makoto Aida, Yoshitaka Echizenya, Takanobu Kobayashi, Chiezo Taro, Yoshitomo Nara, Nobuhiko Nukata, Miran Fukuda, Naofumi Maruyama and Takashi Murakami.

Painting for Joy has also toured various cities in the Netherlands, Macedonia, Greece, the US, Canada and New Zealand.

Painting is one of the oldest and most highly refined Japanese art forms, encompassing a wide range of genre and styles.

Painting for Joy shows how young Japanese artists tried to further develop artistic expression in the final decade of the twentieth century, when information networks and communications technology witnessed rapid development.