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Reisu'l-Hattâtîn Hasan Çelebi
A calligrapher losing his heart to calligraphy during his juvenility… Man of heart, determined against all kinds of
impossibility, the seeker, the finder and the bender before the competent… In Uskudar, in his room with a sea and a dome
view, maintaining an ancient art with his students from all over the world, the gentleman of calligraphy: Hasan Celebi.
Written by: Uğur SEZEN / Translated by: Vildan ARICAN
There are some surroundings that history has permeated
all the stones of its pavement, all the corners of its streets,
its boats and its mosques. How many seigneurs, masters,
hodjas have glanced those surroundings There are many
tablets on its walls and many writings on its domes hung like
identity cards. The moment you get in a ferry from Eminonu
to Uskudar, you already give yourself in to the affectionate
aesthetic of those surroundings and necessarily, you leave
yourself control at some of those surroundings.
We are visiting The Gentleman of Calligraphy, Hasan Celebi,
who has given his all as to keep this compassionate aesthetic
alive, having written for a long time and having educated
tens of students as to prevent calligraphy from evanishing
into thin air. Just next to the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque, Celebi
is hosting us in his residence having a dome and sea in its view.
He has a quite modest study room. It is hard to see a thing
other than tablets, pens and practicing papers. On the wall
that he leans his back there hung a mandate by Abdulhamid
II. Almost ten students from Turkey, England and South
Africa revolve around Celebi like moths do around a candle;
in full attention, as to bear in mind everything that emerges
from his hand and his mouth.
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