The 25th death anniversary of Sadequain will be commemorated with a series of events in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, said a press release issued by the Sadequain Foundation on Thursday.
These include the launch of a book “The Saga of Sadequain” and sessions with art students on the different phases of the iconic painter.
In Karachi the book will be launched on February 14, followed by Lahore and Islamabad on February 16 and February 19 respectively.
“The Saga of Sadequain” is a two-volume book of over 800 pages with more than 500 images of Sadequain’s artworks.
Volume I has the biography of the artist and serves as a window to his private self, said the press release. The book explores his life from childhood, through the adolescence years, his emergence as a young artist and then his meteoric rise to stardom, tracing his journey through the maze of trials and tribulations until the final episode under the monumental ceiling mural at the Frere Hall. He died on February 10, 1987.
Most of the source material of this volume is based on personal experiences, family stories, newspaper and magazine articles and interviews with artists, writers, art historians and critics, and five of Sadequain’s own manuscripts detailing his early life, his views on Indian art, his travelogue, his letters, and his prologue to the collection of his rubaiyyat.
Volume II - Galerie showcases Sadequain’s works that have mostly remained unknown to the world so far, and allows the reader to glance at a sample of the artwork produced by the artist over his lifetime.
These intriguing and innovative works crossed the traditional and predefined boundaries of artistic forms, norms, subjects, objects, shades, dimensions, and every other confinement that he deemed as an obstruction. In the process, he produced artworks that are rich in content, diverse in nature, grand in scale, and large in numbers.
Dr Salman Ahmad, Sadequain’s nephew, is the author of the book.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th, 2012.
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It certainly is a great event and Dr. Salman Ahmad needs to be congratulated for the great efforts he has personally put in collecting and presenting the unique art and manuscripts of great Sadequain.