Dance of Pen and Ink

Introduction by AV Sedov, Director, State Museum of Oriental Art and MB Piotrovsky, Director, State Hermitage Museum. With an essay by Rose Issa

The catalogue to “The Dance
of Pen and Ink”, an exhibition curated by Rose Issa at
The State Hermitage Museum,
St Petersburg and The State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow. The exhibition featured six contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa and
Iran who work with signs, traces and calligraphy: Etel Adnan, Maliheh Afnan, Mohamed Ehsai, Ali Omar Ermes, Rachid Koraichi and Nja Mahdaoui.