THE FUTURE OF TRADITIONS

12jan(jan 12)10:3025mar(mar 25)17:00THE FUTURE OF TRADITIONS

Event Details

This exhibition is about three generations of artists from Iran and the Arab world, from the early pioneers of a vernacular Lettrism movement in the 1960s till now. It includes a few exceptional contemporary calligraphers, but mainly those only occasionally incorporating the written word in their works today.

These artists, from different backgrounds and possessing diverse styles, take inspiration from their own culture; they use the morphology of letters and phonemes, the rhymes and rhythms of calligraphy, abstracting words into pictures and thoughts into images.

Time

January 12 (Thursday) 10:30 - March 25 (Saturday) 17:00

Location

BRUNEI GALLERY, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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