TEHRAN – An exhibition of paintings and installations by Iranian artist Farideh Lashai (1944-2013) and prominent Spanish painter Francisco Goya (1746-1828) will open at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium on February 10, 2017.

The exhibit entitled “Eyewitness” will showcase Goya’s engraving series “The Disasters of War”, which was created between 1810 and 1820 during the Spanish War of Independence. The collection, which highlights war and oppression during the Napoleonic occupation, was never shown during Goya’s lifetime.

The exhibit will also display Lashai’s installations inspired by “The Disasters of War”.

Lashai also united her last video art “When I Count, There Is Only You… But When I Look, There Is Only a Shadow” with Goya’s “The Disasters of War”.

The exhibition will be organized in collaboration with the Prado Museum in Madrid and the British Museum in London.

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