Hassan Massoudy
Hassan Massoudy (حسن المسعود الخطاط), born in 1944, considered by the French writer Michel Tournier as the "greatest living calligrapher",[1] currently lives in Paris.
Early life
Hassan Massoudy was born in 1944[2] in Najaf.[3] He grew up in a traditional society.[3] He moved to Baghdad in 1961, where he learned classic Arabic calligraphy.[3]
Career
After arriving in Paris in 1969, he entered the “Ecole des Beaux-Arts”[2] where he studied figurative painting.[4] But he did not stop calligraphy altogether; to pay for his studies, he was doing headlines in calligraphy for Arabic magazines.[4]
In 1972,[3] he created, with the actor Guy Jacquet and later the musician Fawzi Al Aiedy, Arabesque, a public performance combining music, poetry and live calligraphies projected on a screen .[4]
In 1995, he was involved in the design of the stage set for the ballet “Selim” with the dancer Kader Belarbi from the Opera de Paris and the singer Houria Aichi on a choreography from Kalemenis.[5]
In 2005 he met the dancer and choreographer Carolyn Carlson, and the musician Kudsi Erguner. Together with three other dancers and three other musicians, they created the show “Metaphore”, a harmony of music, dance and calligraphy.[5]
Bibliography
Writer and illustrator:
- Calligraphie arabe vivante, Flammarion
- Désir d'envol, une vie en calligraphie, Albin Michel
- Sinbad le marin, trois voyages, Alternatives
- Si loin de l'Euphrate, Albin Michel
- L'ABCdaire de la calligraphie arabe, Flammarion
- Calligraphies d'amour, Albin Michel
- Le chemin d'un calligraphe, Phébus
- Hassan Massoudy calligraphe, Flammarion
Illustrator:
- Le vin, le vent, la vie, choix de poèmes, Actes Sud
- L'histoire de Gilgamesh, Alternatives
- Toi, mon infinitude, Albin Michel
- Calligraphie pour l'homme, Alternatives
- Écrire la paix, une calligraphie arabe de la paix, Le Pouce Et L'Index
- L'harmonie parfaite d'Ibn ´Arabî, Albin Michel
- L'hydre fumée, Idlivre
- Calligraphie du désert, Alternatives
- Les quatrains de Rûmi, Albin Michel
- Le voyage des oiseaux, Alternatives
- L'enfant et la promesse, Fata Morgana
- La guerre sainte suprême de l'islam arabe, Fata Morgana
- Calligraphie de terre, Alternatives
- Le jardin perdu, Alternatives
- Antara, le poète du désert, 525-615, Alternatives
- Jouer à écrire en arabe - Graphisme, Concentration, Réflexion, Retz
- L'exil, extraits de "Consolation à Helvia, ma mère", Alternatives
- Un suspens de cristalUn suspens de cristal, Fata Morgana
- Bris de langues, Brémond
- Récit de l'exil occidental, Fata Morgana
- Les chapelets d'attache, Amiot-Lenganey
- Le passant d'Orphalese extraits du livre "Le prophète", Syros
- Le vin, le vent, la vie, Sindbad
- Le Conte des conteurs, La Découverte
Translation:
- La voix de Schéhérazade, Fata Morgana
References
- ↑ cited in Caravanes, Vol. 1, Phébus, 1989
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