Ankara exhibits modern Iranian paintings

The Ankara State Museum of Painting and Sculpture has mounted an exhibition of paintings by contemporary Iranian painters.

The weeklong event, the first of its kind in Ankara, displays 73 works by 10 Iranian painters.

"The exhibited items are unique and valuable works of art, which will definitely be welcomed by Turkish art-lovers," museum manager Omer Osman Gundogdu told IRNA.

He also invited Iranian painters and sculptors to cooperate in renovating Turkey's ancient monuments.

"Works of Iranian painters have been displayed at 11 group exhibitions in Istanbul, Bursa and Van, but this is the first time that an exclusive show is held for them," said exhibition organizer Adnan Bildirim.

"Works of some 150 Iranian painters have been displayed in Turkey so far," he added, announcing that 14 Turkish painters would also exhibit their works for the first time in Iran over the next two months.

Mehdi Salehi, Yavar Jamshidzadeh, Shahrokh Ekhtiari and Reza Samadi are the painters who have attended the Ankara exhibition.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118260§ionid=351020105.