President Raisi visits visual art fest

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has visited the 14th edition of the Fajr Visual Arts Festival in Tehran.

Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaeili and some of the organizers accompanied the president on his visit to ‘Mirror on the Mirror’, an exhibit of the festival underway at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

The exhibition is dedicated to showcasing a collection of artworks on the Islamic Revolution.

Raisi said “An artwork can represent hours of speeches and materials discussed in a book in one single image, sustaining the messages of the speeches and the book for use by several generations”.

He also noted that “For people with any language in any era, artwork is expressive and doesn’t need to be interpreted or explained”.

The president expressed the necessity to develop the art market to improve artists’ standard of living, telling the culture ministry to provide the necessary facilities to offer artworks in an appropriate way.

In order to sustain the presence of art in the public arena, he asked cultural officials to use Iranian embassies across world, organizations, recreational parks and other public centers to showcase the artworks.

He also pointed to the key role that art can play in international diplomacy and asked cultural officials to fully exploit the country’s art potential to enhance cultural relations with other nations, especially the neighboring countries.

In a statement published by the organizers, the Secretary-General of the Fajr Festival of Visual Arts Abbas Mirhashemi expressed his thanks to the president for the visit.

The 14th edition of the Fajr Visual Arts Festival has started on February 4 and will go on until February 19.

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