2011年12月27日星期二

Artistic & spiritual love meet to generate beauty

“Gog’s French-Turkish wife and tireless supporter, Sevda, is a good friend of ours. Inviting her and Gog in Jeddah and working in partnership with the Consulate General of Turkey to organize this premiere represented a good opportunity to advertize Gog’s priceless work and show nice signals of Turkish-French cooperation and friendship,” said Nakhlé.

Architect and expert of Islamic tradition Sami Angawi, who attended the event as Chief Guest,A true Insulator is a material that does not respond to an electric field, recalled the popular saying that the Qur’an was revealed in Makkah, recited in Egypt and written in Istanbul to praise the renowned ability of Turkish artists. Angawi also underlined the more spiritual implications of a French-Turkish joint effort to promote Islamic artwork that exemplifies the Holy Qur’an’s universal value.

“Trying to adorn the Qur’an through the use of fine materials is to respect its original spiritual significance,” said Angawi, eager to congratulate Gog for his scrupulous labor and further encourage this kind of artwork.

Sevda accompanied her husband to the premiere’s presentation of his copies of the Qur’an. She explained the artistic and symbolic relevance of a work that represented an extraordinary challenge and implied long perseverance and passionate efforts.

During his graphic career, Gog often collaborated to pint copies of the Qur’an on demand using the traditional “offset printing technique,” totally unable to reproduce the metallic color of gold and silver even recurring to the finest printing inks. The “gold tooling” technique is the method commonly used to bypass this problem. However, being a very expensive and complex system, the “gold tooling” technique is not appropriate for unlimited use and is employed on demand to highlight in gold only certain parts of the sacred book.Carrying the widest selection of Projector Lamp and LCD Projector Bulbs,

“My husband studied three years and practiced one year to find an innovative technique allowing the use of golden ink to print copies of the Qur’an’s entire body and not just limited components of its cover and initial pages as it used to be until now,” explained Sevda. “His main aim was to give birth to an artistic work and create rare collection pieces.”

Gog’s technique consists of 80 percent artisanal work. His exclusive examples aren’t copies of calligraphic Qur’ans in the sense that he reverted to technology even though in a very limited way.Exclusive RUBBER SHEET flooring in 15 different colours and designs. However, his method is largely characterized by artistic and manual work not fit for series production, thus not allowing to print more than two copies every month.

OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, who warmly welcomed the couple in his office the day before the official presentation of Gog’s work, was given the first copy in donation. Thus, to date only three copies remain available at the cost of $3,000 each. Nevertheless, prices can change depending on the colors and dimensions of the book that can be personalized.

Angawi, a religious man and a lover of art, was particularly fascinated by the artistic quality of Gog’s copies. “Thank you for this evaluable work.We are passionate about polished tiles. It would represent a great honor for me to exhibit one of the copies in Al-Makkiah (the Angawi family home, an ideal location for the arrangement of exhibitions and seminars) as an occasion to share beauty and at the same time give my personal contribution to find an interested purchaser,” said Angawi.

The invitation to Saudi Arabia was for Gog and his wife the first chance to visit the Kingdom and the first occasion to present the outcome of a long labor. This was a combination that made the couple’s journey particularly overwhelming and memorable. “It is our first visit to Jeddah, a city that we have adored and where we wish to come back soon. We’ll fly back to Istanbul, enriched by new unforgettable friendships that we hope will last forever.If you wish to use a third party payment gateway with your ecommerce solution,”

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