Maraya Art Center has initiated a new mural as part of this year’s Islamic Arts Festival organized by the Department of Culture and Information to Sharjah under its street art initiative “Jedariya”. The artist has been executed by the Tunisian Calligraffiti artist and graphic designer INKMAN who started the project in late December 2018 and has completed it in January 2019.
The new wall will be viewable in the Heart of Sharjah, on the Corniche Road heading towards the Radisson Blu Resort, in the area of Al Majarah, on the building opposite the Al Maghfirah Mosque and close to the Sharjah Art Foundation’s Rain Room.
The wall displays a poem by the poetess Munira Sabt Al Sabieie from Bahrain who expressed her deep appreciation for the Emirate of Sharjah in the Arabic Poetry Festival 2012. The lines of the poem selected by Inkman read as follows:
“Sharjah is like a sun in his presence, light twinkles from it and radiance elevates it, emitting like a star, in its sky, it rises “.
Commenting on the work, INKMAN said that “This is a mirror reflecting the soul and beauty of Sharjah, and the kindness of its people. In reality, this wall and what is written in it became part of the world. Ethics is also one of the subjects I work on. To be a good and pure soul, we should have good ethics; it is what makes us humans. ”
INKMAN offers a visual space based on calligraphy and geometric forms in an attempt to provide bold combinations using textiles and walls. A graduate of the High School of Design Sciences and Technologies in Denden-Tunis, INKMAN was attracted to poems already at a young age. His passion is reflected in the majority of the artworks. Mixing his Arabic calligraphy roots and spirit with Latin characters, his Calligraffiti artworks give a complex and unique view of the poems in contemporary street art today.
