Lot 33
Your Best Is He Who Opened His Hand And Closed His Mouth
2017
Estimate:
$5,000 - $7,000
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Directly from the artist
Location
Beirut, Lebanon
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“My contemporary work draws its essence from the roots of Arabic calligraphy,” says Mouneer Al Shaarani. "I shed light on our calligraphic heritage by adding a critical look to it, to free it from its golden cage. Its inertia and the conventions [of calligraphy] have limited it to sacred texts, isolating it from all other social life. I thus...
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