Engraving Exhibition Opened

Minister of Culture, Dr. Lubana Mushaweh,  recently opened the Syrian retrospection engraving exhibition, which was held in cooperation between the Department of Fine Arts at the Ministry of Culture and Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus.

The exhibition included some works, produced by artists during the past ten years, of different engraved techniques.

“This exhibition is important since it presents the techniques used by professors in the Faculty of Fine Arts and now it is the time to show them to the public, teachers and the students of the Faculty, hoping that it will be the beginning of a new cooperation between them.” Dr. Mushaweh said

Regarding the importance of showing the treasures of the Ministry of Culture Dr. Mushaweh said: “we are keen to re-show the production of arts which the Ministry of Culture had by archiving and printing them to be available to the people, then we will upload them on the website to be the first step to create a Museum for the modern art in Syria”.

For his part, the advisor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Fawaz Boukdosh, said that hosting the exhibition by the faculty shows that it will not ignore the moral and aesthetic meaning in their students, pointing out that raising these ethical meanings are made through the relationship between  art and society.

Ibrahim Zaaboub