OREANDA-NEWS. On 21 August 2008 was announced, that not a week goes by that we don’t welcome new participants of the International Exhibition of Calligraphy. Now we again proudly present our new participants who recently joined the project. Their works will undoubtedly be a focus of our exhibition. These masters are: Nassar Mansour, Alexey Chekal, Erkki Ruuhinen, Claudio Gil and Henry S.R. Kao.

Nassar Mansour is one of the most well-known Arabic calligraphers. His works are kept in the British museum. In 2007 Nassar Mansour got a Doctor’s degree on the art of Arabic calligraphy in the Royal School of Traditional Arts at the Wales university, where he had been teaching calligraphy since 2002. At the present time he teaches Arabic calligraphy in the Institute of traditional Islamic arts at the Al-Balka University, Jordan.

Alexey Chekal is the art-director in the graphic design studio PanicDesign. Together with professor V. Lensyak he organized the international exhibition and conference “Svyato kirilitsi” dedicated to the Slavonic calligraphy and script. “Calligraphy brings us back to the historical memory, ties the times and delights the eyes” - he says.