A spontaneous beautiful ending

December 15, 2008

The Muses who had dwelled in our museum have been stirring the souls of the visitors and participants of the exposition. The nine sisters were pinching the visitors fingers, touching their hair, flaring up every here and there in the flying pen strokes on paper, smoothly flowing into Chinese, Arabic and Slavonic inscriptions, streaming by leaving beautiful letters and words behind.

Yesterday, during the closing ceremony of the Mystery of the World Calligraphy exhibition, the fervent Muses wrested out. All calligraphy broke loose! Pyotr Chobitko took a brush and some black ink and started writing right on the floor. The Chinese master Chen Wen Fu echoed him and, succumbed to the impulse, painted the column and the floor with the sayings of Chinese philosophers.

Transported with happiness, Bruno Niver, a French chansonnier and calligrapher effused his verses and even sang a touching romance, and then suddenly he dropped the microphone and started writing a fine monogram right under the wall decorated by Alexey Shaburov, the project author, himself.

All of a sudden, Mikhail Rakhlin, one of the guests, sat at the piano and filled the museum halls with the beautiful sounds of the good old sentimental love songs. Hours passed by and the whole floor became painted and decorated with the beautiful fine words and phrases in Russian, Hindu, Chinese, Arabic, French, and many other calligraphies. There was no empty space already on the floor, but the guests were reluctant to leave, still seized by the high art of calligraphy. The end of the art fest was marked by the laser message written in the dark Moscow sky by Pyotr Chobitko. The Muse of Calligraphy reigned supreme during the whole day.