DUSHANBE, February 13, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- The Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan on February 12 announced a new cycle of Fine Art Exhibitions that are organized throughout the year of 2009, according to the SDC Dushanbe Office.

The first fine art exhibition has been opened by works of Tajik painter Bahrom Ismatov.  The exhibition that was opened yesterday will last until March 10, from Monday till Friday.

Bahrom Ismatov – easel painting artist, was born in 1979 in Dushanbe. He graduated from the Olimov State Art College in 1998 and from Tajik State Institute of Art named after Mirzo Tursunzoda  in 2004.  Since 2004 he is a teacher of easel painting.

Member of Tajik Painters’ Union, Bahrom Ismatov participated in a number of republican and international exhibitions: “Surush 2001” (Dushanbe), “Surush 2002” (Dushanbe), International Fine Art Exhibition “Art of Nations” on the occasion of 10th anniversary of the International Confederation of Unions of Artists in Moscow (2004), “Ecology 2004” (Moscow), in 2003 and 2005 – in Tashkent Biennale and in Iran Biennale of Islamic countries in 2006. He also took part in the Starter project on Contemporary Art in Tajikistan in 2007, and in the International Contemporary Art exhibition in GBAO (Nature-Art), in Tashkent Biennale of 2007 in the project Nature-Art, exhibition in BCC (Art basement) in 2008, and in Astana “Youth project” in 2008.

Ismatov’s works are a part of private collections in Tajikistan, Russia, Europe and Asia.