Ali Omar Ermes
{{short description|Libyan painter and author}}
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Ali Omar Ermes ({{langx|ar|علي عمر الرميص}}, born 1945) was a Libyan artist and author. His paintings make use of Arabic calligraphy, often superimposed on a rich-textured ground, and may incorporate fragments of Arabic or other poetry or prose.{{r|grove}} He had lived in the United Kingdom since 1981, and was the chairman of the Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in Kensington in west London; he was also active in other intellectual and cultural institutions in that city.{{r|grove}}
Biography
Ermes was born in Zliten in Libya in 1945. He studied at the University of Plymouth School of Architecture and Design in Plymouth in south-west England, and after his graduation in 1970 returned to Libya.{{r|grove}} There he wrote extensively and headed the visual arts section of All Arts magazine.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} In 1974 he was engaged as a "visual arts consultant" for the World of Islam Festival held in London in 1976, and visited many Islamic countries to identify possible participants in the festival.{{r|ann|page=45}} From 1981 he lived in the United Kingdom.{{r|grove}} Ermes has participated in various Muslim community projects, written about many important issues and has exhibited in some sixty to seventy exhibitions around the world.'A lifetime of painting', Venetia Porter, Q News No: 302 & 303, London, 1 March 1999
Exhibitions
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Ermes has shown work at the State Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia (November 2007); the Fowler Museum of the University of California, Los Angeles, USA (October 2007/8); the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution, USA (May 2007); Word into Art at the British Museum in London, and later Dubai (2006 and 2008); East-West: Objects Between Culture at Tate Britain (September 2006/7) and Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai (March 2008).
References
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}}also the publication Signs of Our Times, From Calligraphy to Calligrafitti, edited by Rose Issa, Merrill publications, London 2016
Further reading
- M. Richardson (1988). The Alphabet of Ali Omar Ermes. Arts and the Islamic World 4 (4): 33–36
- V. Porter (2006). Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East (exhibition catalogue). London: British Museum, no. 18.
- Christine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, Allyson Purpura (2007). [http://www.jstor.org/stable/20447846 Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art]. African Arts 40 (3): 78–91. {{subscription required}}.
- Reem Abdelhadi, Luma Hameed, Fatima Khaled, Jim Anderson (2019). [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17501229.2019.1579219 Creative interactions with art works: an engaging approach to Arabic language-and-culture learning]. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. {{doi|10.1080/17501229.2019.1579219}}. {{ISSN|1750-1229}}.
= Articles in Arabic =
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811024317/http://www.aawsat.com/details.asp?section=25&issueno=8858&article=155357&feature=1%2Fdetails.asp Ali Omar Ermes – A link between Art and Literature – Arabic article]
- [http://www.alwasat.com.kw/Default.aspx?pageId=106&MgDid=50271 جماليات الحرف العربي بخلفية ثقافية أصيلة.. غالية الثمن]
- [http://www.annaharkw.com/annahar/Article.aspx?id=55723 انتقال الفنان العربي «علي عمر الرميص» إلى العالمية]
- [http://www.awan.com/node/42197 علي الرميص في دار الفنون: كل حرف هو صورة تجريدية]
- [http://www.alraialaam.com/Templates/frNewsPaperArticleDetail.aspx?npaId=31418 الفنان العالمي الليبي علي الرميص ينادي بالسلام بحروف عربية]
- [http://www.suhuf.net.sa/2001jaz/may/18/t/ln5.htm بحضور شخصيات إسلامية وعدد من السفراءالأمير شارلز افتتح المركز الثقافي الإسلامي بلندن]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707112152/http://www.aljarida.com/aljarida/Article.aspx?id=50189 علي الرميص يرسم الحروف ويرفض مسخ الطبيعة]
- [http://www.moheet.com/show_news.aspx?nid=98804&pg=21 علي الرميص يصور الكلمة العربية في سياق إنساني]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060925230544/http://www.aliomarermes.co.uk/publications/files/Quds21Oct.pdf Ali Omar Ermes’ exhibition in Mayfair, London, Arabic article]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926003659/http://www.aliomarermes.co.uk/publications/files/Quds11.pdf Ali Omar Ermes and the Arabic Letterform – Arabic article]
=Articles by Ali Omar Ermes in Arabic=
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926003736/http://www.aliomarermes.co.uk/publications/files/Quds13.pdf The importance of the Arabic Language]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926003724/http://www.aliomarermes.co.uk/publications/files/Quds18.pdf Al Arab fil Gharab Part 1]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926003714/http://www.aliomarermes.co.uk/publications/files/Quds27Aug.pdf Al Arab fil Gharab Part 2]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926003729/http://www.aliomarermes.co.uk/publications/files/Quds9Jan2003.pdf The Arab media Part 1]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926003706/http://www.aliomarermes.co.uk/publications/files/Quds10Jan2003.pdf The Arab media Part 2]
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