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By Nigar Orujova

The personal exhibition "Colors of life" featuring works dedicated to Azerbaijan by German artist, professor of the Berlin-based Academy of Arts, Inga Schmidt, was opened at the Museum Center in Baku on May 27.

At the event, Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev congratulated the artist with the exhibition opening and wished her success in creative work.

"In her works Inga Schmidt shows people and their inner world," Garayev noted.

Schmidt says, "The works exhibited in Baku are part of a large exposition. Most of the works are portraits of the people I have come across during trips."

The exposition, which includes 27 works by the German painter, will last until June 2.

It was also stressed that the exhibition was organized in the frame of the second World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue in Baku.

Omar Eldarov, Rector of the Academy of Arts and People's Artist, said, "It can be said that we have mutual creative-pedagogical cooperation with Inga Schmidt. She has taught master classes in Azerbaijan's Academy of Arts."

According to Eldarov, Schmidt is a very remarkable and powerful artist. All the works presented here are full of special energy.

Chairman of the Union of Artists of
Azerbaijan Farhad Khalilov said that the exhibition is of special importance.

"I am glad that an exposition of Inga Schmidt's works opened in Baku, and all amateurs of art will have a chance to get acquainted with her creative work," he said.