About the artist:
Golnaz Fathi, a trained calligrapher has turned the literary art-form on its head by skillfully transforming known language into form and composition. It was at the age of fifteen that she discovered her love of calligraphy when her father enrolled her in a course at the Society of Calligraphy in Tehran. In fact, Fathi later defected from Tehran's University to train for six years with the Calligraphy Association of Iran. Seven hours a day practicing the script eventually paid off -- she was the first woman to win an award for ketabat (a genre of calligraphy) but she soon tired of the discipline's rules and regulations. Hence, she created a new form of expression in her paintings; an imaginary language deeply rooted in Persian tradition while simultaneously hinting at a social renaissance.
Special thanks to Gulf Air, the patron of La Fontaine
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