Iranian artworks on display at Kuwaiti expo

TEHRAN,Jan.2(MNA) -- Iranian artists are displaying their artworks at the Fifth Islamic Arts Forum which is currently underway at the Grand Mosque of Kuwait. Iranian artists from different fields are attending the event which features artworks created by over 50 participants from 22 different countries, with eleven of them focusing on the forum's theme -- Islamic textiles. Calligraphers Javad Bakhtiari, Mohammad Javadzadeh, Mohammad Heydari and Nasser Javaherpur, illuminators Mohsen Aqamiri and Leili Abbbasi and micrographer Raeen Akbar Khanzadeh are the Iranian participants of the forum. Located in a tent outside the mosque, the exhibition houses Islamic art from around the world. China, Malaysia, Palestine, Morocco, Bangladesh, Bahrain, India, Turkey, Oman, Iran, Syria and Kuwait among other countries are participating in this year's forum. The event is sponsored by Mohammad Al-Nomas, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, the Minister of Islamic Affairs, and the Minister of State for Housing Affairs. It is scheduled to continue through January 7 As part of the event, there is a workshop for visiting children, who will be given tips on special techniques and the opportunity to experiment with them in each of the art forms represented. They will also receive instruction on the arts of dialogue and interaction through work-groups, he divulged. Art supplies, books and compilations on Islamic arts are also being offered during the exhibit. The Forum is ongoing until 7 January, 2012. Exhibition of Arabic calligraphy, Islamic decoration, Islamic textile exhibition, Kaba curtains gallery, specialized Arabic calligraphy workshops and the art of composition by clicking on the paper are the programs being held during the event. The press and public media in Kuwait have conducted several interviews with Iranian artists. The workshop held by micrographer Akbar Khanzadeh was welcomed by visitors to the gala. At the opening ceremony of the event on December 27, Iran’s cultural attaché to Kuwait Abbas Khameyar negotiated with Khlaif Al-Uthaina, Undersecretary for Cultural Affairs in Kuwait and Farid Al-Ali, Chairman of the Kuwait Center for Islamic Arts, for holding a solo exhibition by Iranian artists at the event.