Dr. Karam Mos'ad, a jewelry designer has mounted an exhibition for jewelry called" Zaman Inscription – Old Times designs.
The exhibition quotes designs of Islamic civilization and its relations with alternatives of time, past, present and future and how these factors affect designs of jewelry.
Mos'ad interviewed Sada El Balad English (SEE) news website.
He said that Islamic civilization sought to express visions that saturates the artist's conscience and abstracts the shapes of material values to reach their cores not the outer appearance only.
The Islamic civilization exceeds imitation what is in nature to make artist adopt extraction in his designs which agrees with his concept of the universe.
Decoration is the sublime of the Islamic Art and its flourishing related to development of mathematics in the Islamic Civilization which was yielded by the Muslim artist.
Those designs unveil beauty of geometric and plant shapes.
The Mamluks' era is one of the important ages that witness a unique development in arts, especially decoration which reach distinguished levels at art and technique.
Also, architecture which includes many arts used in building great edifices.
The exhibitor takes Mosque-Madrasa-Khanqah of Az-Zaher Barquq as an example of the prettiest models of Mamluks' architecture, especially inscriptions on metal plates of the gate of the Madrasah (school).
The inscription is one the most important techniques used to convey ideas of the Muslim artist to show the pretty and calligraphic values that bear symbolic and meanings related to past, present and future.
The researcher sees that modern metallic jewelry could be forged by quoting the aesthetics of plant decorations, realizing rules, philosophy and concepts that adopted by the Muslim artist in drawing and inscribe those decorations.
Karam Mos'ad works associate-professor at Department of Artistic Works and Folklore, Division of Metal Works, Faculty of Artistic Education, Helwan University.
He is jewelry designer since 1997, certified trainer at the Supreme Council of Universities, human development lecturer in arts, and he also obtained a diploma in Arabic calligraphy and a diploma in gilding.
He won the Thailand Institute's International Competition in Gemstone Design among the 30 best designers in the world 2020.
He won the Excellence Award at the third Cairo International Conference on Arabic Calligraphy Designing Jewelry and Modern Calligraphy Trends 2017, Awarded the Jewelry Design Oscar World Gold Council First Place 2009, ranked among the top 30 designers in the world Gold Council 2009.
Translated by Ahmed Moamar
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