how will we live together? Majlis at the Venice Architecture Biennale

 https://caravane.earth/projects/bridge-to-venice?fbclid=IwAR08d7WGOGc5OwHZFAcIZmgLJXHJIgMhG4zYL0oDF9TXg8ktWKtoVVr6e9U

the square kufic calligraphy

 

The Square Kufic Caligraphy is a particular style of Kufic script of the 8^th. BC, widely used for tiling and architecture in general. The letters figure in their basic structural forms creating different square compositions. The purity, the austerity and simplicity of this genius script reveal its timeless beauty. It’s geometrical design makes this calligraphy to have an absolutely contemporary look.

etoffes d'ecorce-painted and stamped barck cloths

Les etoffes d'ecorce peintes a Fidji servaient de vetements, de panneaux d'interieur et des biens d'echange 

 Iles Fidji, Fin du 19eme s. debut du 20eme s., liber de murier, colorants naturels

Samoa, grand fragment d'etoffe d'ecorce, siapo, 19eme s.,liber d'ecorce battue,estampee et peint.

Les photos ont ete prises dans les sales des expositions permanantes du Musee du Quai Branly

Graphic Stories | Γραφιστορίες: Συνέντευξη: Ειρήνη Γκόνου - Εικαστικός

Graphic Stories | Γραφιστορίες: Συνέντευξη: Ειρήνη Γκόνου - Εικαστικός: Η Ειρήνη Γκόνου είναι μια δημιουργός με πολύχρονη και γόνιμη διεθνή παρουσία στα εικαστικά δρώμενα. Έχει πραγματοποιήσει τριάντα ατομικές ε...

mes notes de l'exposition "gravure en claire-obscure" au Louvre

https://www.louvre.fr/expositions/gravure-en-clair-obscurcranach-raphael-rubens%E2%80%A6

Franz West a Beaubourg

my photo notes from the exhibition of Franz West at Beaubourg 

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/resource/cLGAnRq/ryEdkRx

La rétrospective inédite, et la plus complète à ce jour, que consacre le Centre Pompidou au travail de Franz West propose d’évaluer la postérité de l’artiste autrichien, l’un des plus influents de ces cinquante dernières années, au travers de près de deux cents œuvres...

a javanese manuscript from the British Library

The final manuscript, Sloane 2645, is a volume in Arabic with interlinear commentary in Javanese in Arabic (pegon) script, containing the Mukhtaṣar, ‘Commentary’, by the 16th-century scholar from the Hadramaut, ‘Abd Allāh bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Bā Faḍl. This work, the Muqaddima al-ḥaḍramiyya, 'Hadrami Introduction', also entitled Masā’īl al-ta‘līm, 'Questions for instruction', is an important text of the Shafi‘ī school of law, which was widely used throughout the Indian Ocean littoral spreading out from Yemen to East Africa and Southeast Asia. This well-preserved manuscript, copied in 1623, is one of the earliest dated manuscripts written on dluwang, Javanese paper made from the beaten bark of the mulberry tree.

The writing of the date 1545 (AD 1623/4) in numerals is of some interest. It shows very clearly the standard Indian form of the numeral 5, like a reversed B, used throughout Southeast Asia until the late 19th century, but barely recognized any longer, having long been displaced by the standard Middle Eastern form of the numeral 5, ۵.  More intriguing is the use of a system of dots indicating the unit place: the 1 is followed by three dots indicating thousands, 5 is followed by two dots indicating hundreds, 4 is followed by one dot indicating tens, and finally 5 is in the unit of ones. Exactly the same protocol is utilised in a decorative roundel found at the start of the manuscript, reproduced below.

from the Asian and African Studies blog:

http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2018/06/javanese-manuscripts-in-the-sloane-collection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29