Your Best Is He Who Opened His Hand And Closed His Mouth

2017

Mouneer El-Shaarani

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Gouache and acrylic on fine art paper

70 x 70 cm

signed

Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000

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Beirut, Lebanon

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ABOUT Mouneer El-Shaarani

“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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