“We welcome artistic and cultural interactions and cooperation with Niavaran Cultural Center”, mentioned Yaroslava Romanova, the first secretary of the Cultural and Press Section at the Embassy of Italy in Tehran on her visit to the 11th National Biennial of Contemporary Iranian Ceramic Art at Niavaran Cultural Center.

According to Niavaran’s Public Relations, Ms. Romanova described this exhibition as an excellent semantic and epistemological event while pointing out the cultural and artistic background of Iran and Italy through her visit which was accompanied by Ebadreza Islami Kolaee, the Artistic Deputy Consultant of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and the President of Niavaran Cultural Center and Farbod Hemmat Azad the Secretary of the Ceramic Society and the Curator of this exhibition. The Cultural Attaché of Italian Embassy also stated that our effort is to form a new cultural and artistic era between the two countries of Iran and Italy hopefully after the pandemic of Covid-19.

Ebadreza Islami Kolaee pointing out the high potentials and capacities of Iran and Italy stressed that artistic interactions, especially mutual cultural cooperation will cause transcendent cognition for the two countries. Emphasizing the necessity of forming effective and efficient relations between European countries and Iran he said: “I am willing to make an agreement of cooperation between Niavaran Cultural Center with distinguished historical Centers in Italy.” This incident could cause beneficial collaborations amongst two nations’ artists, he mentioned.

It is notable that the “11^th National Ceramic Biennale of Iran” is taking place in the gallery no. 1 & 2 and the garden of Niavaran Cultural Center every day of the week from 10:00 to 18:00 on weekdays and 14:00 to 18:00 on weekends and holidays under the observation of all the health protocols.

G. R.