Right crossing the Shaikh Zayed Road, towards World Trade Centre, passersby witness a giant hula hoop-like structure with Arabic calligraphy and wonder with bewildered eyes at the architectural marvel. Presented in collaboration with the Middle Eastern Studies Program.Read below to know more about the most interesting details of the world’s most beautiful museum. He has also ran workshops at which he presented calligraphic forms, demonstrated techniques, and assisted participants in creating calligraphic works of their own. During his visits he has held small exhibitions and visited numerous classes, mostly in Arabic language. Khaled has visited Wellesley on three previous occasions. His pieces have also appeared in larger exhibitions held in Wiesbaden, Madrid, New York, Zurich, San Pedro, Sharjah, Bahrain, Damascus, Paris and London. His work has been celebrated in over thirty solo exhibitions held in several countries and venues: Mexico, Kuwait, Dubai, Morocco, the UK, Germany, and at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Khaled has won numerous competitions, including the highly prestigious International Competition in Calligraphy held in Istanbul, and the Modernity of Arabic Calligraphy Competition held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. His process allows it to populate and interact with a visual world that also incorporates oil painting, traditional ink calligraphy, mixed media and collage techniques. While Khaled’s early career focused on traditional Islamic and Arabic calligraphy, his later work moves away from the word and embraces the Arabic letter, while deconstructing and rebuilding it.
He sees himself as a painter and a “letterist.” For Khaled, letters are living entities that carry and express multiple dimensions from the musical and verbal, to the spiritual, emotional and sensual. Khaled’s passion can be located at the level of the letter itself. Both the reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public.īorn in Syria, Khaled al-Saa’i is an internationally acclaimed painter and calligraphic artist. Guests are invited to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Letters from the Seasons of a Wandering Mind with a reception on Tuesday, March 1 at 4:00 PM.
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