Art

Text | Shanzay Subzwari – Photography | Humayun Memon – Issue 47 – I walked into the gallery space of the Alliance Francaise de Karachi, greeted by an assortment of creative media that was organized by Goethe Institute Karachi. The large-scale collages and mixed media pieces that adorned the walls soon gave way to a […]

Text | Shanzay Subzwari – Visuals | Artists and Galleries – Issue 46 – 2018 has been a dynamic year for art exhibitions in Karachi. Koel Gallery showcased a number of exciting exhibitions. Curator Aziz Sohail was invited to curate Drawn to Form II by artist Abdullah M.I Syed, which was a follow up to

Text | Aasim Akthar – Visuals | Courtesy writer & artist – Issue 46 – Babar Gull’s linear paintings pose formal dilemmas, linguistic slippages, and categorical paradoxes that turn formal analysis into a game – and perhaps that’s the point. To attempt to describe these pieces is to willingly abandon the possibility of fixity, as

Text | Zarminae Ansari – Visuals | Paul Swanson – Issue 46 – The annual Art Week in March is a series of events in Dubai and the UAE full of events, performances, exhibitions, installations and festivals. My first March in Dubai, and I found out the hard way: there is simply too much to do,

Text & Visuals | Dua Abbas Rizvi – Issue 44 – Too many of us have become accustomed to readying ourselves to view art – as one readies oneself to interact with a hallowed space or an official one. The exhibiting and viewing of art, as we largely know them today, are acts of purpose

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

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

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

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