Page d'accueil -[ Français] - [ English ] [L'odeur de l'encre] [The Letter]  [Exposition] [Publication] [Galerie] [LivresCartes postales]  [Atelier] [Nouvelles de l'Ecriture]  [Creation] [La page conseil] [Calligraphy lesson] [Contact]

<------------------->

Abdallah Akar was born in Tunisia in 1952 He comes to Paris at the end of the sixties in order to carry on with his studies.
His tastes soon drive him towards plastic arts: He learns drawing and painting but is finally attracted to calligraphy and his meeting with Iraqi Master Ghani ALANI will be decisive.
Since 1986, year of his first public exhibition, his work appears in a number of cultural events such as personal or group exhibitions, lectures, courses, etc...
Since 1993, he teaches calligraphy at the Arabian World Institute in Paris.

"L'attrait de la ligne", Dec. 6th, 1990
"Generally speaking, caligraphy, be it Latin, Arabian or Chinese, is not meant to be read. It uses the letter for its shape, its geometry. It plays with light and shade, uses colour, volume and space. It is an art in its own right"... "In Morocco, for example, there are calligraphy-deciphering contests. The letter is codified, measured, it follows a rythm. It is written with a quill which is beveled to the left for Arabian calligraphy and dipped into ink. Thus, with the same letters, you can write one word in different ways."

"A calligrapher composes, does scales: He is like a musician who, with one note, does not play the same music", Abdallah Akar explains. For him, "Arabian calligraphy makes a link between Chinese and Latin calligraphies. The technic is closer to Latin calligraphy, but the spirit is more Chinese". A very personal point of view by the Tunisian calligrapher. The specific feature of this Arabian craft is that it uses an alphabet like the Latin one, but insists on the line that gets in a tangle, bends, moves closer, and thus makes one think of Chinese ideographs.