President awards outstanding calligraphers

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On the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of Chinggis Khaan, an international calligraphy exhibition of traditional Mongolian scrip titled “Script of Eternal Sky-2018” was organized at the initiative of President Kh.Battulga from November 5 to 9.

The exhibition is being held in the two parts; for adults and students.

On November 5, President Kh.Battulga visited the National Modern Arts Gallery where the calligraphy exhibition for adults is taking place to see the calligraphy artworks featured at the gallery.

On the same day, the president attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition for students at the Junior Center for Creative Arts.

The exhibition brought together 123 children, including 104 from Mongolia, three from Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia, and 16 from China’s Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.

During the exhibition’s opening remarks, President Kh.Battulga emphasized that the exhibition has been held annually since 2011, and the number of participants has been increasing year by year since the first exhibition.

He noted that this exhibition is of crucial importance to preserving national culture and arts.

Some 48 artists, including 22 from Mongolia, three from Russia’s Buryatia, two from Russia’s Kalmykia, 20 from Inner Mongolia, and one from France are participating in the exhibition for adults.

President Kh.Battulga presented awards to the artists of the two most accomplished works at the exhibition.

The best calligraphy prize was awarded to Mongolia’s calligraphy master T.Jamiyansuren for his typography work titled “Script of Eternal Sky”. S.Tsengel from Inner Mongolia won the special prize for his work titled “Bileg Baramid”, which was written in three different scripts of traditional Mongolian, Tod, an alphabet for Oirat language, and Vagindra, an alphabet for Buryat language.

The president presented awards to the best calligraphers from the students participating in the exhibition.

Winners of the student exhibition

1. Calligraphy titled “Paper Bird” by M.Tsenguun, a student of Chingeltei District’s School No. 5 2. Calligraphy titled “Blue Book” by B.Zesmaa, a student of Chingeltei District’s School No. 50 3. “Quotations of Chinggis Khaan” by S.Enkhmaa, a student of Bayanzurkh District’s School No. 53

4. “Morin khuur” by N.Khulan, a student of Chingeltei District’s School No. 23 5. “Give me aspiration” by D.Altantsetseg, a student of Bulgan Province’s Rashaant soum

Winners of the young students’ exhibition

1. “Twelve behaviors of Chinggis Khaan-1” by Sorgog, a student from Inner Mongolia’s Khulun Buir Region 2. “A steppe of Borjigon” by J.NominErdene, a student of Songinokhairkhan District’s School No. 65 3. “Respect your brother” by Maria Imkinova, a student from Kalmykia 4. “Script of Eternal Sky” by Yo.Zolboo, a student of Chingeltei District’s School No. 23

5. “Twelve behaviors of Chinggis Khaan-3” by Chandmani, a student from Inner Mongolia’s Khulun Buir Region