World’s famous calligrapher artists will visit Velikiy Novgorod

Famous masters of letters from all over the world will arrive in Velikiy Novgorod. They are invited by the administration of the Contemporary museum of calligraphy, which organizes the III International Exhibition of Calligraphy.

As part of the comprehensive program of events, workshops will be held in the grounds of Yaroslav's Court, in the main pavilion of the Exhibition. During all three days, from 10 till 12 September 2010, renowned calligraphers will be showing the art of fine letters.

 

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The master class by Petr Chobitko

 

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Delicacy of the Arabic calligraphy by Nazip Ismagilov

 

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Korean calligrapher Kim Jong Chil

 

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Secret of command of a thin pen by Yury Koverdiaev

 

Seminar themes are various, for example: “Secrets of Cyrillic alphabet”, “Beautiful women names in the Arabic calligraphy”, “History of greeting-cards. Examples of congratulatory lettering”, “Old Russian calligraphy”. The exhibition guests are welcomed to visit workshops on Slavonic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Ukrainian, Korean calligraphy. Much attention will be paid to the theme «Sacral calligraphy».

 

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Sacral chamber

 

Other three workshops, including the workshop «Birchbark manuscripts», will be held in Novgorod State United Museum. It is for the first time that the workshop on porcelain will be held during the International Exhibition of Calligraphy, with the assistance of the Museum of Novgorod artistic culture. The workshop will be led by a French of Iranian origin, Hassan Makaremi.

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Artwork by Yury Koverdiaev having perfect
command pencraft on birchbark technology

 

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Novgorod charter expert Andrey Sannikov

 

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Lessons of slavic handwriting

 

Apart from Mr. Makaremi, other well-known painters, calligraphers will arrive in Russia, for example, Kim Jong Chil (Korea), Georgia Angelopoulos (Canada/Greece), Michel d’Anastasio (France), Karin Bauer (Germany), Borghild Telnes, Bas Vlam (Norway), and many others. Our country will be presented by really professional maestros of calligraphy.

For the details of the workshops’ schedule, you can click here .