Tehran museum to host Japanese painting exhibit
Tehran Times Art Desk

TEHRAN -- The Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum will host Japan’s worldwide touring exhibition of contemporary paintings beginning November 28.

Entitled “Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in 1990’s”, the showcase is organized by the Japan Foundation, featuring paintings by nine contemporary Japanese artists, including internationally acclaimed painters Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara.

The exhibit is an attempt to show how young Japanese artists have understood and tried to develop artistic expression in painting during the final decade of the twentieth century, a time of rapid development in information networks and communications technology.

The artists whose works are on display at the exhibit were born in or around the 1960s and grew up in an advanced consumer society, surrounded by a plethora of semiotics and information. They are attempting to open up new horizons in communication between people through paintings.

Paintings by Makoto Aida, Yoshitaka Echizenya, Miran Fukuda, Takanobu Kobayashi, Naofumi Maruyama and Nobuhiko Nukata, Taro Chiezo are also on display during the event.

The exhibit was previously held in several other countries including the United States, Greece, Macedonia and Thailand.

The museum is located at on Esfandiar Blvd., near the intersection with Vali-e Asr Ave. in northern Tehran.

Photo: “Pavement of Yukiko Okada” by Makoto Aida is one of the works slated to go on display at the Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum in late November.

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