Mers N°1 Artwork

Dancer and choreographer by trade, AragoRn operates a crossing of artistic media and expands since 2017 his creative field. He has developed a specific work on movement, the windstyle® technique inspired by paintings, drawings, images which describe curves, voids and solids in a dynamic relationship. He has worked with important artists of the contemporary scene such as: Andy Degroat, Nacéra Belaza, Michel Schweizer, or Bob Wilson... and has been working since 2010 with the company 14:20, in its research and development of «New Magic». This range of experience invites him to focus on the anagogical role of art; its capacity to connect us to a higher dimension. In a natural extension of dance and curves in motion, he begins to practice Arabic and Persian calligraphy, learned in the traditional way for 5 years from the Iranian master Bahman Panahi and the Tunisian calligrapher Hamda Yacoub. In 2021 he joined the collective La Gare Expérimentale, a group of independent parisian artists based in the 19th arrondissement, where he held his first solo exhibition and occupies a studio for his calligraphic creation. « As a self-taught artist, I went to meet the dance already present in me, a movement towards which I naturally tended. Unfolding in a fluid and uninterrupted circulation, this «dance» was gradually defined as a unique undulatory movement, with no beginning nor ending. The graphic dimension and the visual impact of the signifier have always been present in my personal work or my collaborations, in search of what would be both perpetual, and unchanging. I thus came to the Arabic calligraphy, a discipline with constructed rules that seeks the transcendence of a message, most often profound and noble. I have been practicing for several years the techniques of Persian calligraphy, the composition and poetic arrangement of words and lines, with the tools of a thousand year old tradition, and I find in the autotelic exercise of calligraphy a way to evoke and summon peace and elevation. »