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
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Text | Aasim Akhtar – Visuals | Courtesy Karachi Biennale – Issue 39 – It is almost impossible to think about the Karachi Biennale without thinking about the city of Karachi – about where it is, what type of city it is and what it is not, about its role in the local and regional
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Text | Iftikhar Dadi – Visual | Courtesy Various – Issue 39 – An earlier version of this article was originally published in the Herald’s August special issue celebrating 70 years of Pakistan The writer is an Associate Professor in Cornell University’s Department of History of Art. This essay must start with a qualification: it
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Text | Marium Qureshi – Visuals Courtesy | Ali Nazir Khan – Issue 38 – These days art is all about strange juxtapositions and conceptual gimmicks. Although in today’s age this ethos works well and the boundaries of art are stretching to include absurd but potent concepts and the grotesque is considered glamorous and bold.
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Text | Tazeen Hussain – Visuals | Courtesy Karachi Biennale – Issue 38 – The poignant call of the inaugural Karachi Biennale 2017 The interlinking of Art, Culture and Society can be thought of as a suspended fabric that has its hierarchies of colors, knits and folds but yet it is one. Together all these
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