Int'l fine arts expo opens today

Tue, 18 Oct 1994, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

Tonight marks the official opening of the Jakarta
International Fine Arts Exhibition at the Shangri-la Hotel.

This extraordinary exhibition organized by the Yayasan Seni
Rupa Indonesia (Indonesia Fine Arts Foundation) will be open
daily until 10 p.m. for public viewing until Oct. 23 and will
include 500 paintings from numerous acclaimed Indonesian artists
and international painters as well.

Never before has such a massive endeavor been undertaken and
for Rp 5,000 Jakarta residents will be able to see paintings by
such Indonesian masters as Raden Saleh, Basuki Abdullah and
Affandi hanging alongside works by Matisse, Renoir, Chagall, Klee
and Gaugin to name but a few.

In conjunction with the exhibit, several seminars will be
presented by prominent art critics and dealers from Indonesia,
New York and Zurich.(jas)

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