During one month and a half Moscow was showered with new works created specifically for the III International Exhibition of Calligraphy. It was a real challenge to pull together art pieces of 67 authors coming from 27 countries. Finally their works reached the Contemporary museum of calligraphy, where they were carefully unpacked, classified and snapshot to be further prepared towards the transportation and exhibit in Velikiy Novgorod.

Artem Liskiv – a custodian of the museum collections

The museum personnel had luck to be the first to have a look at magnificent pieces of art, true calligraphic masterpieces, from Mongolia, the USA, China, Norway, India, Malaysia, Syria, France, Iran, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Jordan, Ethiopia, Japan, Georgia and many other countries. As usual, works that came from Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia differ in styles and topics. All in all, the Exhibition in Novgorod will bring together 180 calligraphic works and canvases, manuscripts and even sculptures.

One of the new 180 art pieces

The major part of exhibition pieces will be devoted to religious and spiritual ideas and issues to become a vital part of the sacral calligraphic collection. Its presentation will be performed by UNESCO in the year 2011.

V. Shapovalov. “This precept of mine, love each other as I love You”

Fragments