Hassan Massoudy

Hey guys,

I hope you are all well.

I think my illness is gone, but I think I may have made my PC ill.  It’s not working well at the moment and I think I might need a hammer to fix it.

So if I start to post things late, you now know the reason.

For this week I wanted to focus on Hassan Massoudy.

Hassan Massoudy was born in 1944, Irak, and at the age of seventeen, he started to work with calligraphers in Baghdad for eight years. In June 1969, he attended Fine Arts School in Paris.

Hassan’s creations came out from the meeting of the past with the present, the Eastern art with the Western art, from tradition with modernity. He has been perpetuating the tradition of calligraphy craft at the same time as breaking it; he simplifies lines, tending to purer lines, adding colours opening on to a wider unlimited world. 

Hassan’s calligraphies carry out a rhythm, a musical structure which echoes back to the very remotest of times. The emotion is very strong when looking at the movement of his lines, their weight, their lightness, their transparency, the balance between black and white, the fullness and the vacuum, the concreteness and the abstractness.

Hassan makes his own inks and pigments from a chemistry of his own and from a personal selection of papers.

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