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Najat Makki lights up the Sharjah Calligraphy Museum with “Anwar al-Quloub”

Al-Owais, Al-Qusayr and the audience during a tour of the exhibition.

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Yesterday, the Calligraphy Square in Sharjah witnessed the inauguration of the parallel personal exhibition “Anwar Al-Quloub” by Emirati artist Najat Makki at the Sharjah Calligraphy Museum, as part of the activities of the 24th edition of the Islamic Arts Festival, in the presence of Abdullah Al Owais, Head of the Department of Culture in Sharjah, and Director of the Cultural Affairs Department at The department is the director of the festival, Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Qusair, and artists, calligraphers and media professionals from different countries of the world.

Al Owais, Al-Qusair and the attendees toured the exhibition, where they viewed various artworks presented by the artist with a remarkable aesthetic vision, and listened to explanations about the meanings of the works, as well as how to work on them.

The Emirati artist, Najat Makki, took the initiative to dedicate her works participating in the “Lights of Hearts” exhibition to Sharjah museums, authorities and institutions.

Makki said: "I dedicate all of my work participating in the Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival to Sharjah's museums, bodies and institutions, in gratitude for the great favor extended by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, through his support for arts and culture, and his intimate embrace of every creative and active in Contribute to the cultural and artistic movement in Sharjah.

The artworks in Najat Makki’s exhibition represent an extension of previous civilized cultures, a message that carries content, and addresses the human awareness by realizing the aesthetic values ​​that exist in nature in order to preserve its symbols and forms, and to adapt its beauty into artworks bearing an aesthetic vision, as well as keeping pace with the developments of the times. Materials and tools bearing multiple characteristics were used. The tones of the lines, their degrees, the arrangement of their sequence, and how they are combined represent an important aspect of the general form in a manner appropriate to the plastic construction of each work. By experience - from the news of a thing he knows its reality - as well as rhythm, harmony and harmony.These forms expressed the movement in multiple directions, and appeared in one entity that reflects the style of life and its continuous rhythm, and light here is a design mediator, in addition to evoking the Islamic heritage in a vision that keeps pace with the times and global and local changes, as well as the data of nature as a source of diversity, for this the interest came With the design elements within the composition and their harmony and the relationship of units to each other in terms of shape, space, space, shape and what is around it, in the construction process such as unity, contrast, heterogeneity, rhythm, shadow and light relationship, symmetry, symmetry, and gradation, and this reflects a law of the laws of the universe, the zigzag shape or The spiral came according to the law of the eternal succession of the universe and life: night followed by day, and day followed by night, as it is considered in human cultures a lunar symbol that indicates circulating renewal.

"Crafts and Porcelain"

The Ceramics House witnessed the opening of the exhibition “Crafts and Pottery” by Iraqi artists Wissam Al-Sayegh and Sumaya Aziz, where they present impressive handicrafts. One of the oldest elements of Islamic art, ceramics have an ancient legacy in the arts through different ages, and the Islamic era has close links with ceramics in terms of utilitarian performance and aesthetic, descriptive and documentary formation.

From here, the exhibition deals with the possible connection between the original Arabic letter, ceramics, its techniques and methods.

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