Uzbek jewelry to be exhibited in Paris

Deputy Chairman of Mass Media Fund Said Mirziyoyeva noted on her Instagram page that the exhibition "The Road to Samarkand. Wonders of Silk and Gold" will be opened at the Arab World Institute in the French capital on November 23.

"On November 23, the Institute of the Arab World in Paris opens an exhibition of unique works of popular applied arts of Uzbekistan, created in the period from the mid XIX to the beginning of the XX century. For the first time in France more than 300 exhibits from nine major museums of our country, including textiles, clothing and footwear, headdresses, jewelry, as well as 24 paintings of the Turkestan and Russian avant-garde from the museums of Nukus, Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent will be presented to the international public.

The exhibition was initiated and organized jointly by the Foundation for Culture and Art under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Arab World Institute. The general curator of the exhibition is Yaffa Assulin.

"I am confident that this large-scale project will bring the intercultural cooperation between France and Uzbekistan to a new level by opening up the unique achievements of applied and fine arts of the region for a broader audience", Mirziyoyeva said.