[New-Poetry] Word into Art..., correct URL

[Roger Day]

My review:

Good exhibition of Middle East artists using Arabic scripts in
intricate and interesting ways. It's quite small and each piece is
very intense. Some were plays around Kufic script - very geometric -
some with religious phrases, other with literary quotations, both
modern and ancient poets. Some signs of western influence - abstract,
collage, graffiti and photoshop appear in the younger artists.  Also
signs of the Israeli, Western occupation. Also words from exiles.

In the first instance the beauty and inventiveness of the artists with
typography fascinated and inspired me. A couple. Offered Eyes, Shirin
Neshat, Iran/USA, inscribed the words of "I feel sorry for the garden"
by Forough Farokhzad into the white of a woman's eye on a photograph.

This is the translated version:

No one is thinking about the flowers
No one is thinking about the fish
No one wants to believe
that the garden is dyng
that the garden's heart has
swollen under the sun
that the garden
is slowly forgetting its green moments

Rashm by Wijdan, Jordan featured the words Rashm I by Charbel Dagher.
The words were inscribed on vertically hung scarves, red and gold.

Veiling their faces, a translucent cover
Of impressions and shapes
Emanates from their ghosts,
And penetrates into their bodies...
A hasty encounter
In the door-way:
Long enough
To defer payment of accounts
And renew contract
Between passengers and captain.

All in all, a fascinating exhibition and well worth seeing if you're
interested in text-image crossovers.

Roger
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On 10/22/06, JforJames at aol.com <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:
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> The British Museum's new exhibition demonstrates the imaginative ways in
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> the written word in their art today
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