Aroused the interest of visitors in the Turkish Pavilion
Ain Expo..modern ideas that open the way for new calligraphers' work
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The Turks made a great contribution to the development of calligraphy, as they have been interested in it since its inception hundreds of years ago.
They are still keen to preserve its values and methods, and are working to revive it by encouraging the calligraphers of the contemporary generation, and opening the way for new calligraphers' work.
The increasing demand for this art, over the past decades, opened the door to remarkable attempts to develop it, and paint it as modernity or modernity. Young people’s ideas and various experiences emerged from their imaginations to present us with remarkable works.
The organizers of "Expo 2020 Dubai" did not miss the importance of these works, so its premises hosted three remarkable experiences, in this field, presented to them by the Turkish pavilion.
The first is for Muhammad Aref Fural, who has been practicing the art of Arabic calligraphy for more than 30 years, and has mastered the thuluth, ruq’ah, Naskh and Jalil scripts.
He had previously written the Holy Qur'an in Naskh script.
It took three years to complete this task.
The Turkish Religious Affairs Department took the initiative to print it.
Calligrapher Muhammed Aref Fural studied Arabic calligraphy in Turkish secondary and middle schools.
He is the director of the Arabic Calligraphy Department at the Istanbul Public Library.
And the second experiment of Mehmet Eray Atay, from Gaziantep (a graduate of the Faculty of Science at Istanbul University, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences), he draws marble shapes on water, then transfers them directly to paper.
Atay studied the art of marble painting on water at the Istanbul University Student Cultural Center, and participated in various group exhibitions.
As for the third experiment, it is for Dr. Shahnaz Pekar Ozkan, (Assistant Professor at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey), and it is different in quality, as she is an artist specializing in miniature pieces of art, which are used in books to explain or describe something in the context of a story, or the like.
It is an art - according to the artist Shahnaz - that has existed in Turkey for more than 1,000 years.