Abd A Masoud

Arabic calligraphy with a difference describes best what I am trying to show in my work. My goal is to reshape the Arabic script, to combine it with ornaments and symbols, to create an artistic work without figurative painting. I am trying to make the Arabic calligraphy or the Arabic signs understandable and acceptable for Arabic and a non Arabic viewer.

In order to make the calligraphic element more attractive for the "non-Arabic speaking viewer", I am deliberately avoiding the traditional main criteria of calligraphy (white background and black letters). Instead I am using Arabic translation of quotations, poems and astrological texts. I do not renounce the gold colour which is used traditionally in Arabic calligraphy for decorating and embellishing. But I use the gold very discreet to decorate the surfaces of certain objects and give them a special breath.

Therefore the spectators find in my paintings different backgrounds and a variety of patterns and structures presented in a varied range of colours while maintaining the visual contrast of the Arabic script. I like to work with different colour layers, deep and daring shades which are able to lead the viewer into a wide lightness of the image and pleases there eyes.

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1987 Received my Bachelor of Art from Webster University, Vienna

Exhibitions

Many Collective exhibitions in the Rearte Gallery

2013

Exhibition and symposium planned for 2013 Vienna, Pöchlarn, Amman, Sharm El-Sheikh

6th International Sculpture-Symposium „CONNECT IN ART“ / Stubenberg am see

Mai 2013 „Noli me tangere“ in der Domeniggalerie / Wien

April 2013 “90 % Wasser - 10 % Mensch“ at the Alten Schiebekammer / Vienna

April 2013 Contemporary interpretation of old manuscripts – Celje at Kvartirni hiši / Celje Slovenia

February 2013 collective exhibition “5 Jahre Rearte Gallery in Meidling” at the Meidling District museum

2012

September 2012 Solo exhibition at the Gallery of Credo Bonum foundation, Sofia – Bulgaria

September 2012 Gruppenausstellung in der Justizzentrum Wien

September 2012 collective exhibition at Galerie Sala Terrena Körmend / Hungary

September 2012 collective exhibition at art Salon – Schönbrunn palace in Vienna

August 2012 collective exhibition at Schloß Albeck

August 2012 collective exhibitionat at Werkstätte für Kunst im leben „- Cassandra still alive “Müllendorf

August 2012 collective exhibition at Berchtoldvilla / Salzburg100 years BV – 100 years art in motion

July 2012 collective exhibition “Changing pla...