Painter
Mohamed Amzil
Master of the classical scripts and painter of the modern letter, Mohamed Amzil is one of the few calligraphers from the Maghreb to have won the great international competitions of Arabic calligraphy.
The artist
Career
Born in 1964, Mohamed Amzil was drawn to drawing and calligraphy from childhood. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca in 1982 and graduated in 1985; as the school then taught no calligraphy, he studied it on his own, from the works of the great masters, analysing the geometry and movement of the letters until he developed his own method.
In 1992, at the invitation of Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Director General of IRCICA, the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture in Istanbul, he spent six weeks with the master calligrapher Hasan Çelebi, completing in that time the lessons of two particularly demanding scripts, naskh and thuluth. From 1993 he won prizes and gold medals in major competitions, including the international competition in Istanbul and the world calligraphy festival in Baghdad. In 1997 he received his ijaza, the master’s licence in calligraphy, from Hasan Çelebi in Istanbul.
From tradition to the modern letter
Grounded in the rules of the classical scripts, Amzil works to renew them: his canvases join calligraphy and painting, with colour handled in harmony with the movement of the letters. The Syrian critic and calligrapher Maasoum Mohamed Khalaf sees in his work a modern style born of perfect mastery of the classical canon, and an ornament of the letter inspired by the Saharan horizon.
Landmarks
- Born in 1964
- École des Beaux-Arts, Casablanca, 1982–1985
- 1992: training with Hasan Çelebi, IRCICA, Istanbul
- 1997: ijaza in thuluth and naskh, Istanbul
- Jury member, Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, 2014
- President of the Moroccan Association of Calligraphy
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