Iranian Artists’ Glorious Presence at Int’l Festival in New Delhi
According to IQNA’s branch in East Asia, artworks by calligraphers and artists from all over India were put on display at the festival.
Iranian Culture Center in New Delhi also presented 25 tableaus of calligraphy and paintings at the exhibition.
Yusuf Ghouri, an organizer of the festival, said that maintenance and promotion of Islamic calligraphy was the main objective of the exhibition.
He added that the art of calligraphy is being forgotten as a result of the development of publication and printing industry.
The festival plans to encourage the people to the noble Islamic art, he noted.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of the festival, a number of the Indian artists talked about the nobility of the art of calligraphy stressing that it is an Islamic art.
They considered Iranians as the pioneers in this field of art and expressed their willingness to have more .cooperation with Iranian artists
Salman Chishti, head of Chishti Foundation, thanked Iranian Cultural Center for its cooperation in holding the exhibition.
The artists were awarded and granted certificates at the end of the festival.
