April’s ID featured paintings with huge letters that made me think of Hassan Massoudy first, but it was someone else called Ali Omar Ermes, a Libyan-born artist and calligrapher that is based in London now.
Honestly I don’t find his works to be that creative in terms of ’style’, he insists to be a painter rather than a calligrapher, but he focuses a lot on text. What attracted me is what’s written, sure the way he puts those in his works is great, but it simply didn’t captivate me.
I like his approach to text, I think it’s the higher element of his work, I really can’t comprehend the visual element yet I can’t deny that I like the piece’s relative simplicity, the human quality of the script, and there are a few pieces that I actually like as a painting.
Calligrahy is an invention, just like mathematical numbers. It’s a formulaic art form that was created several hundred years ago by great thinkers.
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