AB GALLERY LUCERNE
Arealstrasse 6
CH-6020 Emmenbrücke-Lucerne
Phone: +41 41 982 08 80
Mobil: +41 79 69 805 69
E-mail: office@ab-gallery.com
OPENING HOURS
Tuesday to Friday: 2 - 6 pm
Saturday: 11 am - 4 pm and by arrangement
AB GALLERY ZURICH + AB PROJECTS
Klausstrasse 23
CH-8008 Zurich
Phone: +41 41 982 08 80
Mobil: +41 79 69 805 69
E-mail: office@ab-gallery.com
OPENING HOURS
Wednesday to Friday: 12 am - 6 pm
and by arrangement
Iman Mahmud 2010 - Nature is a powerful source of inspiration that invites to observe carefully and to meditate. For me, nature is an open book, and I try to decode the symbols in this book.
In my paintings, which I call wall pictures, I use Arabic characters and symbols on canvas. The texts are compositions of word fragments with mystical meaning, comparable with the continuous texts that were created with cylinder seals in Mesopotamia. The cylinder seal, containing circumferential inscriptions or motifs, showed a continuous band of repetitive images or texts when rolled on soft clay.
Structures and calligraphy provide unlimited creative possibilities. The art work lives from the magic of the symbols.