.jpg "Members of a group of foreign artists and journalists visit an exhibition at Tehran’s Abolfazl Aali Gallery on May 7, 2013. (Mehr/Milad Alaii)")
TEHRAN -- Collections featuring various aspects of Islamic art were put on display in an exhibition at the Abolfazl Aali Gallery of Tehran’s Art Bureau on Tuesday.
Paintings and works of calligraphy, illumination and gol-o-morgh -- a unique style of Persian painting featuring bird and floral motifs in different colors, have been showcased at the exhibit, Art Bureau reported in a press release on Wednesday.
The artworks have been created by Mitra Lashkari, Susan Hadavand, Zohreh Zamanian, Akram Ziaii, Keivan Shojaei, and several other Iranian artists.
Art Bureau Director Mohsen Momeni-Sharif and Nazeih Taleb Maarouf, the Head of the Crafts Development Program at the International Research Center on Islamic Culture and Art (IRCICA) in Istanbul, were among the guests who inaugurated the exhibition.
A group of artists and journalists from China, Turkey, Tunisia, Tajikistan, Malaysia, Uganda Egypt and Sudan also attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
The bureau is located on Somayyeh St., off Hafez Ave.
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