“The miracle of Islam is words,” explains Mohammed Bozorgi as he walks me around his show at the Ayyam Gallery in Al Quoz, Dubai. Softly spoken and in hesitant English, Bozorgi proceeds to map out the efforts that went into the large-scale calligraphic paintings that surround us, explaining that he took great pains to keep the rules and to break them.
“Calligraphy has two aspects, meaning and form,” he says. “We have traditional strict rules for the formation of letters that I try to break with my own style. But while I release myself from the form, I never deviate from the meaning. Because the meaning of the words is extremely important.”
Bozorgi’s exhibition, Transcendental Strokes, is his first solo show at the gallery, and his works fill every inch of the vast warehouse space – not an easy task for any artist. Most of the paintings take Islamic calligraphy as a starting point, and are inspired by the tenets of his faith. His methodical techniques transform some of the names of Allah and other key words and passages from the Quran into powerful visual manifestations that allude to metaphysical existence.
“When I see the stars in the sky and how they move around each other, I am inspired by the magnificence of Allah’s creation. It is things like this that inspire me to make paintings that reflect this in its composition.”
Original article by Anna Seaman
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Mohammed Bozorgi’s new artworks – a mix of calligraphy and scientific precision
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