Over 50 Years of Art | Welcome to Ali Omar Ermes

LAM ALIF LIBNUL MUTTAZZ

This stunning piece displays the power of contrast in colour. The clear-cut ideas, between the visual and the writing in poetry. The poem featured in this artwork is by Abbassi Amir Ibnal Muttaaz.

It reflects the historical state of the Abbassid Caliph in the Amir Al Mu’mineen’s times in the ninth century at the heart of the Arab lands and Muslim civilization. Here the poem engages in the description of the intellectual who because of his sense of knowledge, experience, and expression, could be interpreted like this:

He is able to foresee the future just as if he was there first by the conclusion of reason. Therefore the moment he takes pen to paper, he opens the door of light and the clarity of crystal on what so ever he is putting his opinion on.

Original production date: 1987
Artwork Size: 103cm x 97cm
Materials: Acrylic and ink on paper
Location of Original: Private Collector

ALIF SUCOON

With eight lines of the poem by Muaan Ibn Aws. The verses describe the poet’s stand for honour, rejecting and condemning corruption and social decay.

This is one of a series of four Musical Alifs each with different short vowels, the others being Alif Kesrah, Alif Fethah, and Alif Dhammah, the respective sounds given to the letter by the short vowels are i, a and u, the succoon of the Alif Succoon meaning silence. Thus the artist engages with the expression of the poem, using form, colour, texture, and sound, by using the four vowels of the Alif in its four degrees from low to high.

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TUGHRA

This vibrant piece contains the verse from the learned philosopher-poet Abul Ala Al Ma’arri, in which he says:

“When I utter the implausible, I can shout it out loud without fear or favour, but when I speak of the truth I have to whisper”

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HARF UL DAL

This piece is about the power of the single stroke technique which Ali Omar Ermes employs as a hallmark of a number of his works.

It explores the vast richness of the Arabic language and the magnitude of the depth of expression in Arabic with the simplest and most direct method or as complicated as you wish.

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Clients

A selected number of artworks by Ali Omar Ermes have been acquired by public/private collectors, individuals and corporations. Below are some of his clients that own a piece of his work:

The British Museum

10 Downing Street

Mobil

Merrill Lynch

The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Freer Sackler

Wereld Museum

Investcorp

LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Contemporary Art from the Islamic World

Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts

Barjeel Art Foundation

Meem Gallery

Written Art Foundation

Arab Heritage Gallery

Rose Issa Projects

Egee Art Consultancy

Saudi Aramco

BP

Jaeger-LeCoultre

Malaysia Airlines

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

Riyadh King Khalid International Airport

Prince's Trust

Arab Banking Corporation

Maybank

USA Embassy

Japan Bank for International Corporation

Balai Seni Lukis Negara - National Art Gallery Malaysia

Uniteers Outdoor Advertising

United Engineers Malaysia

Beit Al Quran

Centre of Islamic Culture

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

A number of museums and galleries have exhibited artwork by Ali Omar Ermes from all over the world. Much of his artwork has been displayed in some of the most important museums including Tate Gallery, The State Hermitage Museum and many others: