Hassan Massoudy (??? ??????? ??????), born in 1944, considered by the French writer Michel Tournier as the "greatest living calligrapher", currently lives in Paris.
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Early life
Hassan Massoudy was born in 1944 in Najaf. He grew up in a traditional society. He moved to Baghdad in 1961, where he learned classic Arabic calligraphy.
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Career
After arriving in Paris in 1969, he entered the "Ecole des Beaux-Arts" where he studied figurative painting. But he did not stop calligraphy altogether; to pay for his studies, he was doing headlines in calligraphy for Arabic magazines.
In 1972, 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 .
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.
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.
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
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