French artist Huot-Marchand to hold exhibit in memory of Morteza Momayez
TEHRAN.(Iranart) – French graphic designer Thomas Huot-Marchand plans to showcase his works in Tehran in memory of prominent Iranian graphic artist Morteza Momayez.
The exhibition will open at the Shahnaz Hall of the Iranian Artists Forum on November 23, the organizers announced on Monday.
The exhibit is part of the program arranged to commemorate the death anniversary of Momayez, who is considered to be the father of modern graphic art in Iran. He died of cancer in 2005 at the age of 70.
Huot-Marchand is also scheduled to deliver a speech during the opening ceremony of the weeklong exhibition.
He lives and works in Besançon. He is the director of the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, a post-graduate research course based in Nancy.
He is the designer of Minuscule (2007), a typeface for extremely small sizes, awarded as one of the ten typefaces of the decade.
Source: Tehran Times