Balanced between analog and digital
Umar Islam’s work is the result of an existential journey in search of truth.
Life experiences have led the young artist to a rapid evolution, a sharp change of direction, from a figurative POP aesthetic filled with messages and images of contemporary society to an informal, calligraphic, geometric synthesis that seeks the essential. Synthesis of beauty and harmony with materials sometimes dissonant with each other, but functional to convey an inner world.
The artist reflects on the invisible, the sacred and weaves new relationships between spirituality and science, peacefully taking a stand in the great social issues of contemporaneity.
Balancing analog and digital, the ‘artist gives great importance to manuality as well as idea, making use of technology without being dominated by it.
The artist frees himself from the slavery of the image to enter an imaginative, non-figurative, abstract, conceptual world.
Light as truth.
He looks to Islamic art, to the patterns of the Mosques of Mecca and Medina and reflects on the oneness of a creator, source of Light and Light itself that sustains and balances particles, organisms and planets in perfect harmony.
