Nasir Mounes

book 1.jpg - Nasir Mounes

born in Baghdad in 1963, lives at present in The Netherlands. He completed his university degree in 1987 at the Academy of Fine Art in Baghdad. He holds a post graduate diploma from the Koninklijk Academic van Beeldende Kunsten in The Huge, The Netherlands. Nasir Mounes made many exhibitions in the Middle East and Europe including Jordan, The Netherlands, France, Norway and Germany. He published many books that synchronize between poems with painting. Nasir Mounes made many hand made art books in Arabic, Dutch and English. This type of art represents one of his most interesting art works and therefore, he is utterly interested in participating in international exhibitions for such kind of art .

The Incantation maker

This experience attempts to identify , to a certain extent , the features that amalgamate written poetry with visual images . Its purpose is to enable the presentation of any poetical expression in a pictorial manner such that the visual animates the poetry . Like a painting , which seems incomplete without a frame , the poem seems perfunctory without a visual legend . Visualization is not a luxurious pictorial form , but rather a deep concern from the poet who wants the poem to take a visual shape emanating from the meaning of the words and to attain another level and readability . In that , the visual poetry originates from aesthetics and spiritual visions , and emits its shape from manuscripts , ornaments , mintage , rugs , pottery , woodwork etc . This kind of poetry reshapes the poem from an empty entity to a visual and living body . It tries to avoid the bare face of the printed poem . which looks like a dead body wrapped in a white shroud. This has prompted me to look at the poetry from a different angle and , like the miniature , leave no empty spaces between the lines and the pages for the devil to seize . It is a new way of writing , which attempts to bring a different approach for dealing with papers , inks and writings . poems of such kind try to visualize the meaning of the words by shaping the spaces , areas , letters and numbers in order to appear like a body painted with legendary symbols and magic squares . It tells the words as if they were pictures , and brings back the poetry to its mystical beauty and fascination

Contact information

  • Nasir Mounes
  • Mauvelaan 67
  • 2282 sw
  • Rijswijk
  • NL