Text & Visuals | Mariam Qureshi – Issue 44 – Islamabad is a quiet city. Life here is comparatively slower paced then the hustle and bustle of cities like Karachi and Lahore. Similarly people have a misconception that the art scene of Islamabad holds little significance in the mainstream art scene of Pakistan. But little […]
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Text | Shanzay Subzwari – Visuals | Courtesy Canvas Gallery – Issue 43 – A myriad of colours welcomed the audience as they stepped into Canvas Gallery recently. Reds, blues, greens and yellows infused into one another as they came together to paint portraits of female forms in various poses; some reclining, some hanging from
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Text | Beena Sarwar – Visuals | Beena Sarwar & Aicon Gallery – Issue 43 – The legendary Punjabi poet Amrita Pritam, who died in October 2005 at the age of 86, powerfully symbolizes the syncretic culture of the Indo-Gangetic belt. She expressed her agony about the 1947 bloodshed and partition of the Punjab in
Text & Visuals | Dua Abbas Rizvi – Issue 42 – Art has always been a reliable means of archiving change. Consciously or inadvertently, artists document sociocultural changes, not only through the work itself, but also by absorbing into their artistic vocabularies the new visual materials that accompany any major shift from one way of
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Text | Shanzay Subzwari – Visuals | Courtesy Goethe Institute Karachi – Issue 42 – It’s always interesting to see an exciting collaboration between different nations when it comes to various forms of entertainment and culture. In April, Germany collaborated with Pakistan on the art scene when the Goethe-Institut (facilitated by Stefan Winkler), in collaboration
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Text | Shanzay Subzwari – Visuals | Courtesy Sanat Gallery – Issue 41 – As I stepped into Mohsen Keiany’s recent solo show at Sanat Gallery, Karachi, I couldn’t help but marvel at the size of the huge grey canvases that swept the walls. When viewed at first, overpowering and brazen, these oil on canvas
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Text | Dua Abbas Rizvi – Photography | As mentioned – Issue 41 – The biennial exhibition model, or biennale, has become increasingly popular across the globe in recent years as cities rush to take it up to achieve any number of ends: stimulate creative exchange between local and international institutions, integrate the various pasts
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Text | Marjorie Husain – Visuals | Courtesy Chowkandi Art Gallery – Issue 41 – Masood Kohari who divides his time between France and Pakistan is a master of the art of crystal collage. In his recent exhibition held at the Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, he showed exquisite crystal collage works and oil on canvas
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Text | Mariam Qureshi – Visuals | Courtesy Mohsin Shafi – Issue 40 – Mohsin Shafi’s work doesn’t whine – it is crafty and an eloquent critique on what irks the artist about the society he lives in. The frustration and bitterness that he expresses in his work is enhanced when he travels abroad and
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Text | Maria Aslam & Khadija Raza Baig – Visuals | Courtesy ArtChowk – Issue 40 – Art today is used to make socio-political statements; notions of disparity and environmental degradation have also surfaced in the realm of artists work. Very rare is a call to inform the citizens of issues that plague our society
kurray se art banao: A reflective exhibition on all things waste Read More »