International Association of Mongolian Calligraphy visits the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy

2017年6月5日

Today the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy welcomed within its walls representatives of the Bichig Soyol International Association of Mongolian Calligraphy: the executive director, Ayushi Dalangurban and the Association representative for Kalmykia, Yevgeny Bembeyev.

The Bichig Soyol (‘Writing Culture’) International Association of Mongolian Calligraphy was founded in October 2016 with the aim of uniting calligraphy artists working with Mongolian calligraphy from all the regions where Mongolian writing is used: Inner and Outer Mongolia, Buryatia, Kalmykia, and other.

Mongolia has been holding annual exhibitions of Mongolian calligraphy since 2011. In 2015, representatives of Kalmykia and Buryatia joined the project for the first time. By establishing the International Association of Mongolian Calligraphy its founders hope to further broaden the project’s geography, inviting to participate calligraphy artists from China, Korea and Japan.

Mr. Dalangurban arranged a visit to Moscow to establish a partnership with the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, exchange experience of organizing international calligraphy exhibitions, and to arrange for Mongolian artists to take part in the coming 6th International Exhibition of Calligraphy.

It is obvious that the aims of the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy and the Bichig Soyol association are similar: to preserve and promote the rare art of calligraphy; hence the museum happily agreed to represent Mongolian calligraphy artists’ works at the coming exhibition.

As a sign of friendship, the visitors presented the Museum with a traditional Mongolian calligraphy scroll dubbed ‘Nomads’. The Museum, in its turn, handed Mr. Dalangurban an official invitation to the opening of the 6th International Exhibition of Calligraphy and presented him with a set of catalogues of the previous International Exhibition of Calligraphy editions, expressing the hope that the next catalogue will feature works of Mongolian calligraphers from Bichig Soyol.

Make sure to visit the 6th International Exhibition of Calligraphy: it will showcase calligraphy works from all over the world, including Mongolia.