Hesham Malik

Carpe Diem introduced Hesham’s first solo show in a Goan gallery, featuring 25 artworks by the internationally acclaimed artist, and is his retrospective to include his work on canvas in conjunction with his ability to transform the colors into something meaningful. The surface of his paintings is extraordinarily complex and designed densely. As a result of many layers of colors, the paintings possess a rich texture and sublime luminosity. The various phases of Hesham’s career are explored, beginning with his early imagination and a broad selection of works created throughout.

Hesham has been displaying his artworks since the 90’s. Exhibitions of his works were held in New York, London, Berlin, Toronto, Dubai, Zürich, Munich, Mumbai so on and so forth. Over the years, the way he presents his artworks has changed. His modern art do not have much in common with what we usually know from art galleries: Hesham’s Imagination is a human marvel, which has no limits.

Hesham is best known for his large figures and abstract modern art, which address a variety of subjects pivotally important in our society and culture. His paintings, an amalgam of several styles and imagination, are composed of mainly drawn and painted elements. For Hesham, his work addresses the relationship between imagination, life itself, and the intimacy of the perceptual experience of the painted image.

He notes that he is “drawn to the beauty of people, how attrition and regeneration in the natural and man-made world evokes both a reductive and expressive response.” By emphasizing a layered process, he deliberately alludes to the passage of time, while the figures within his work keep moving as he continuously turns his panels as he works on them. Hesham feels his work is complete only when it can be successfully viewed.