International Exhibition of Calligraphy | |
International name | International Exhibition of calligraphy |
Type | Art |
Featured in | Exhibitions, festivals, master-classes |
Mission | To form a beautiful and healthy society |
Goal | To keep the unique art of calligraphy alive for the future generations |
Commenced | 2008 |
Head | Alexey Shaburov |
Participants | 114 |
Venues | Moscow, St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod |
Exhibition management |
Contemporary museum of calligraphy 2, bld. 1, 5 Luchevoy prosek, Moscow, 107114, MEC Sokolniki |
Web | http://www.calligraphy-expo.com |
International Exhibition of Calligraphy (Russian: Междунаро́дная вы́ставка каллигра́фии) — a project organized by Contemporary museum of calligraphy, with the support of the Museum-educational complex Sokolniki. It aims at the calligraphy popularizing through exhibitions and festivals and promoting the cultural and educational significance of the art of calligraphy for spiritual development of a personality.
Calligraphy is the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner (Mediavilla 1996: 18).
In 2008 Alexey Shaburov, the President of EcoCentre and Museum- Education Complex Sokolniki initiated the project with well-renowned calligraphers and designers e.g. Petr Chobitko, Evgeny Dobrovinsky, professors Leonid Pronenko, Pavel Semchenko, Ilya Bogdesko, Nikolay Taranov to join it within a few months.
The exhibition displays works of 114 artists from 41 states.
Repin State Academic Institute of Painting Sculpture and Architecture hosted the I International Exhibition of Calligraphy on September 16–21. Despite little advertising the first day saw more than 500 people visited it before the Official opening. With 480 works from 25 states presented. In total the Exhibition had of about 700 works
More than 20 lectures and master-classes with Russian and foreign artists were held during five days of the Exhibition. with 40 famous calligraphers to attend the project in total.
Interesting facts
The welcome book was to be posted an entry in with ink and quill.
All female visitors on the last day of the Exhibition were given white roses.
A just-married couple and a cadets platoon were among the visitors.
Calligrapher Petr Chobitko, opening ceremony of the I International exhibition of calligraphy
Exposition in the Repin State Academic Institute
Master-class of calligraphers Jean Larshe and Katharina Piper
Citizenship Day caused Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy to launch the exposition on December 9–14, 2008 dedicated to the Museum’s newcomer - the first Post-Soviet Russia’s Handwritten Constitution. This A2-sized work has been performed in five months by Petr Chobitko, Chairman of the National Union of Calligraphers, in person (but lining the paper).
Evgeny Dobrovinsky, Petr Chobitko, Yuri Koverdyaev, Nazip Ismagilov, Andrea and Volker Thomas Wunderlich, Avraham Borshevsky, Manohar Desai, Bruno Niver, Chen Wenfu visited the Exhibition.