English Forest
Water Colour Paintings Exhibition
by
MUHAMMAD YOUSUF

Chief Guest
Sheikh Muhammad Afzal (Khalid Umer)
Minister for Environment Government of Sindh

on Monday 28 May, 2012 at 5:30 pm
the Exhibition will countinue till 6 June, 2012
Daily 11:00 am to 6:00 pm

Sadequain Art Gallery
Frere Hall, Fatima Jinnah Road,
Karachi-Pakistan.

Our very first event, on 3rd June 2007, featured a poetry reading by the late Zeeshan Sahil and it turned out to be his last public appearance. We are thrilled to announce that we have decided to celebrate our fifth birthday, and honor Zeeshan’s memory, by hosting a Mushaerah on Saturday, 19th May 2012, from 7:00 pm featuring Pakistan’s leading Urdu poets.

The poets who will share their works at T2F’s 5th Birthday Mushaerah are:

Ajmal Siraj
Anwar Shaoor

Attiya Dawood

Iftikhar Arif
Javaid Saba
Rasa Chughtai
Razi Haider
Sahar Ansari
Zehra Nigah

Shakil Jafri will be our host for the evening.

The last 5 years have been an incredible journey and we hope you will join us in our celebrations.

IMPORTANT: We will begin on time and request that you arrive by 6:30 pm. Seating is farshi. A few chairs will be available for people who are unable to sit on the floor.

T2F
10-C, Sunset Lane 5,
Phase 2 Extension, DHA,
Karachi-Pakistan

Photography Exhibition 2012
Communication Design Students of
Karachi School of Art

Abid Ghulam Nabi, Ali Nasir, Asma Farooqui, Baseer jilani, Bilal Alvi, Faizan Mishal Akhtar, Irma Khan, Javeria Asif, Marium Ejaz, Malik Shoaib Arif, Maliha Tanveer, Rameez khan, Sania Basheer, Sadia jabeen, Sehrina Zafar, Sharjeel Imtiaz, Summayya Saqib, Talha Ahmed Khan, Taha Saeed Khan, Zarah Marfani, Zenobia Raza and Naveed ur Rehman

Cheif Guest
Yousuf Basheer Qureshi

on Wednesday 16 May, 2012 at 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
Exhibition will continue untill May 19, 2012
Gallery Timing: 10:30 am to 5:30 pm

KSA Gallery
Karachi School of Art
ST-2B, Block-17, Gulshan-e-Iqbal,
Karachi-Pakistan.

on Thursday 19 May, 2012 at 5:00 pm
the Exhibition will countinue till 31 April, 2012

Nomad Art Gallery
H. # 22, Justice Abdul Rasheed Avenue, F-6/1,
Islamabad-Pakistan.

“After working with print makers for almost twenty years, we at Nomad felt that it would be worth it to work with Iram and Aleem to put an exhibition together,” explained Nageen Hyatt, curator of Nomad Gallery.

And in this spirit, Iram Wani and Aleem Dad have put together a collection of some of their best works of print in the latest exhibition at the art gallery. For Aleem Dad, the work is more about the process rather than the outcome. “The process varies and as you start a print and develop it through each stage, it changes and takes a form of its own,” he explained.

“So even if the process is copied and repeated, the outcome will be unique each time and this makes each piece in the current
exhibition the only one of its kind,” he added.

Dad developed serious interest in print making after he participated in a print workshop at Swansea, North Wales and enjoyed the separation from the turbulence of Pakistan that it afforded him. “My works are introspective and an effort to discover myself, away from the overtones of our overwhelming surroundings,” explained the polite and pleasant Dad.

Dad has “created a body of work which introspectively remains true to his previous concerns,” explained his artist statement.

A similarly quiet and jovial Iram agreed with Dad and explained that for her the very motions involved in print-making are a source of release for her energy. “Every thought and every movement is inter-connected,” and for Iram each muscular move to manually determine each centimetre of her print is part of the process. And so her prints are a lot more organic in nature. “I always go back to nature as the source of my inspiration. The objects and colors from my environment are the symbols of my thought process,” she explained.

While like Dad, introspection was also driving the content of Iram’s work, each one of her piece was connected with the other one to create a series. “My work is an autonomous activity. The ensuing images are a dialogue with the past, the present and the future,” explained Iram.
(Dawn)

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A special exhibition of rare collections will be held at the National Museum Karachi to mark the International Museum Day — being observed on Thursday.

The Sindh culture department has organised a seminar on the occasion, and other special events to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of the National Museum, on the museum premises. Sindh culture minister Sassui Palijo will be the chief guest.

The exhibition will be open to public from May 18 to 30.

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Shahid Sajjad

It is always a delight to see one artist paying tribute to another. This works wonders in two ways: (1) it elevates the artistic expression of the tribute-paying person to a level where sincerity of content surpasses the command over technique (2) it creates bonhomie between extraordinary individuals which rubs off on their admirers. An exhibition of photographs of distinguished sculptor Shahid Sajjad’s works (along with a book launch on the same subject) by noted photographer Arif Mahmood which commenced at the Photospace Gallery on Wednesday spoke volumes for the talent of both artists.

The black-and-white pictures on display take the viewer on a journey of the eminent sculptor’s creative pursuits. They try and analyse his creations with such insight that it almost gives a firsthand experience of witnessing Sajjad’s artworks.

The most distinct feature of the show is the single lines taken from known Urdu couplets assigned to each exhibit. The lines, picked by none other than poet Zehra Nigah, serve as the caption for the artist’s works as well as illustrate, albeit subtly, the thought behind the whole endeavour.

While lines from the great Urdu poets such as Meer Taqi Meer, Sauda, Yagana and Faiz are no less engaging, it is Ghalib’s poetry that dominates the scene, for understandable reasons. Shahid Sajjad is a Ghalib buff (he may not concede that, though).

Arif Mahmood

And Arif Mahmood knows very well the co-relation between the artist he has photographed and Urdu poetry. One of Arif Mahmood’s remarkable achievements in the exhibition is a piece captioned Haath ki jitni lakeerein theen rag-i-jaan ho gaeen.

The photographer has intelligently been able to capture Shahid Sajjad’s interpretation of the line and has at the same time construed that in his (Arif’s) own style.

The texture of Sajjad’s work can be readily felt in the grab.Apart from that, an image in which one of this writer’s favourite lines Wamandagi-i-shauq tarashey hai panahein — again by Ghalib — has been used is very astutely shot by the photographer. The inherent frenzy in Shahid Sajjad’s work becomes artistically oblique but not beyond grasp.

A large piece in which the sculptor’s profile is seen with his creations captioned Lazim hai ke hum bhi dekheinge sums up the display rather well.

The exhibition will remain open till May 29.

Tuckh-tea
Tucktha
Tuckkht
by
IQBAL GEOFFERY

on Wednesday 23 May, 2012 at 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
the Exhibition will countinue till 24 June, 2012
Daily 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq Gallery
NCA Lahore,
Lahore – Pakistan.

This Exhibition pertains to Emptiness/Dislocation/prescription/proscription. It stamps (chapps) our time as the brave and bold odyssey of an artist’s life as art, not as amenity or exercising public relations. Sir Norbert Lynton rhetorically asked in 1962: Is there anyone in modern art to match Iqbal Geoffrey??? The artist declares unequivocally: “An artist accomplishes what you did not expect from art!”.He asserts that all art is collage/fusion/assemblage/derivatives. We only make a difference by taking the given bravely further. As Bulley Shah points out: Gull Ek Nuktay which muckdee Aye! It all culminates in dot com. And almighty God commands in the Holy Quran, Surah Shaitan, Verse 28: We have digitally devised all Creation. In easy Urdu it translates from Arabic:

“Hum nay sub takhlique koe awdidd mein shumar karr diyya!”.

Humble translations are by Iqbal Geoffrey.

The launch of a book Shahid Sajjad by Arif Mahmood will be held at the Photospace Gallery at 6pm, says a press release.

An exhibition of Mr Mahmood’s photographs of sculptures made by Mr Sajjad will also open at the gallery and will continue till May 29, daily from 11am to 8pm (except Sundays).

on Tuesday 15 May, 2012 at 5:00 pm
the Exhibition will countinue till 24 MAy, 2012
Daily 11:00 am to 8:00 pm (excluding Sunday)

Canvas Gallery
F 50/A, Block 4, Clifton,
Karachi, Pakistan

There are different ways of tracing history. One of them is to make it look horrible and yet discover progressive elements in it. The other way is to refer to a certain pattern, which may or may not be palatable, in history with a positive frame of mind. For example, internecine fights in the days of yore causing a lot of bloodshed have often been illustrated in hair-raising terms. And still, there are some artists (and scholars) who find aspects in them which helped mankind grow intellectually.

An exhibition of artist Muhammad Zeeshan’s latest works opened at the Canvas Gallery. The organisers have titled it, The special siri series’.

Siri is the word used in Urdu to describe the head of an animal — goat, cow etc — especially with reference to a particular dish. The viewer sees quite a few siris in the exhibition, however, that’s not the whole story.

Muhammad Zeeshan is trying to connect the past with the past. This means what happened in yesteryear in the name of wars and sacrifices carries on not necessarily for the wrong reasons, but for reasons that are unavoidably related to human progress.

According to a statement provided by the gallery on the artist’s latest endeavour, “he seeks inspiration from cultural archetypes, in particular the image of the Pakistani film hero whose bravery and courage is symbolised by the profusion of blood that covers his body”. It is an indication that Muhammad Zeeshan is striving to move away from the path that many have chosen to define the violence that has engulfed our society for long. He is redefining, without ignoring the severed or decapitated heads, the whole thing by giving it, among other things, a positive look.

To achieve all of that, the artist has also experimented with a new technique, namely laser scoring with gouache on wasli.
(Dawn)

Recurrent images of women and horses were seen in Raza’s paintings with use of bright colours and sharp brush strokes.

Punjab Education Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman was the chief guest of the event, and inaugurated the exhibition along with Revivers Galleria owner and curator Sara Anjum.

Around 50 oil paintings of the Karachi-based artist were displayed at the gallery. The painting exhibition titled Journey is Raza’s second solo exhibition in less than five months. His first solo art show was held in January last, titled Journey of Colours, which displayed 38 of his paintings, all of which were sold out.

Raza has been painting for several years and has exhibited his paintings both within the country and abroad.

In addition to the inauguration of the solo art show, a book written by known artist Nadeem Zuberi on and about the artist and his creative works – Maskoor Raza’s Journey – was also launched at the gallery. The exhibition will continue until May 27.
(Daily Times)

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