Dubai Calligraphy Biennale: A Showcase of Global Calligraphy Arts and Creative Talent

The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) continues to prepare to organize the Dubai Calligraphy Biennale, which will be launched in early October, with the aim of highlighting the importance of this art as an expressive and aesthetic tool, which falls within the framework of Dubai’s cultural vision aimed at consolidating Dubai’s position as a global center for culture. An incubator for creativity and a meeting place for talents.

Dubai Culture, through the Dubai Calligraphy Biennale, whose inaugural edition will be organized with the support and participation of more than 200 local and international artists and creators, seeks to support the creative scene in the city, by highlighting calligraphy arts from different cultures, as the event program will include the organization of more than 15 galleries in more than 20 locations around Dubai will display a variety of creative works, highlighting the vitality of traditional and contemporary calligraphy and typography written in eight languages, as well as other works highlighting the aesthetics of jewelry and product design, public art, sculptures and textiles, in addition to a variety of art shows and other categories. Which shows the accuracy of calligraphy arts.

The Biennale will also witness the organization of more than 100 diverse artistic and educational sessions and workshops, which will be presented by a group of internationally known artists, experts and calligraphers.

Creative stock

Dr. Saeed Mubarak bin Kharbash, Executive Director of the Arts and Literature Sector in Dubai Culture, stressed the importance of calligraphy as one of the constituent elements of Arab and international culture, pointing to the authority’s keenness to highlight the concept of calligraphy and its various arts, as one of the tools for expressing the creative stock of culture.

He said, “The calligraphy is considered a unique and self-contained art, due to the aesthetics it possesses in the nature of its geometry, details and various forms.” He added: «In recent years, calligraphy has become part of plastic art, and (Dubai Culture) has been keen to pay attention to this art, and worked to highlight it through the implementation of a set of programs, projects and forums that celebrate calligraphy and well-known calligraphers, in line with its commitments to support artists and talents in this field. the field”.

new platform

For her part, Fatima Al-Qurashi, project director of the Dubai Calligraphy Biennale, said, “Dubai Culture seeks, through organizing the Biennale, to create a new creative platform capable of enabling talents from all over the world to display their work and experiences in the various arts of calligraphy.” The Dubai Calligraphy Biennale establishes a global art event capable of enhancing the creative scene in Dubai, thanks to the richness of its program of knowledge and art and design exhibitions, accompanied by various artistic activities and workshops, that contribute to enhancing ways of interacting with this art and its various aesthetics and designs, as well as discovering talents. New in calligraphy.

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Dubai Culture revealed that a new group of cultural institutions active in the local cultural scene have joined the list of partners supporting the Dubai Calligraphy Biennale: Dubai Expo City, Mohammed Bin Rashid Library, Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation, and Dubai Center Gate. Global Finance, which represents a new experience with its qualitative lifestyle concepts, and Pokhara Gallery, which seeks to unite art collectors and strengthen their relationship with the arts by strengthening ties between them, and AWC ART WORLD CREATIONS LTD, a creative platform specialized in creating Online galleries and digital art.

• 200 local and international artists and creators participate in the event.

2023-08-14 22:05:54
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