TEHRAN – The 11th edition of Iran’s National Biennial of Persian Painting opened on Saturday after a six-year gap resulting from mismanagement and the COVID-19 pandemic. Abdorreza Sohrabi, the director of the Visual Arts Office of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, a group of cultural figures and artists came together at the Saba Art and Cultural Institute in Tehran to attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition. Over 200 works in different fields of Persian painting, including miniature, taz’hib (illumination) and gol-o-morgh, are on view at the biennial, which will run until April 9. “The 11th edition of the biennial is a special event; despite the unfavorable social conditions and limited space for the exhibition, we held sessions producing positive results, and now we see 221 artworks hanging on the wall,” Sohrabi during the opening ceremony of the biennial. He said that a number of the works […]

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