{"id":126306,"date":"2018-02-04T08:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T06:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=126306"},"modified":"2018-02-04T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T07:02:54","slug":"art-exhibition-brings-contemporary-iranian-art-under-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=126306","title":{"rendered":"Art Exhibition brings Contemporary Iranian Art under the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA \u2013 Five Iranian plastic artists organized their first exhibition at al-Sha’ab Gallery in Damascus with the aim of introducing contemporary Iranian art to the Syrian audience.<\/p>\n

Commemorating the 39th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran, the 4-day exhibition showcases 40 artworks which vary between calligraphy, graphics, caricature and calligram.<\/p>\n

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In a statement to SANA, Head of the Plastic Artists Union Ihsan al-‘Ar said that the majority of exhibited artworks reflect the Iranian cultural identity represented by the Persian calligraphy, in addition to other exhibits and paintings depicting the close Syrian-Iranian relations in all fields.<\/p>\n

He noted that a cultural symposium will be held within the next two days during which Syrian and Iranian artists will speak with special focus laid on the Iranian art.<\/p>\n

For his part, Iran’s embassy cultural attach\u00e9 in Damascus, Abul Fazl Salehinia, underlined the importance of reviving cultural activity in Syria after passing through difficult stages successfully.<\/p>\n

Iranian caricaturist Ahmad Reza Beyzaei expressed happiness to be in Syria and take part in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

R. Raslan\/Ghossoun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA \u2013 Five Iranian plastic artists organized their first exhibition at al-Sha’ab Gallery in Damascus with the aim of introducing contemporary Iranian art to the Syrian audience. Commemorating the 39th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran, the 4-day exhibition showcases 40 artworks which vary between calligraphy, graphics, caricature and calligram. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,149,6987],"tags":[2176,863,11325],"class_list":["post-126306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arts-culture","category-exhibitions-symposiums","category-latest-news","tag-art","tag-exhibition","tag-iranian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}