Golden Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces on display
Internationally-acclaimed artists to showcase works from Sept 12 to 26.
Some of the representative works of prominent Pakistani artists on display at Gallery6.
ISLAMABAD:
Art may be timeless but it is time for celebration at Gallery6. To commemorate the 50th show landmark, the “Golden Jubilee Exhibition” will open at the gallery on Thursday.
Established in 2008, the gallery has come a long way in carving a niche for itself and houses a collection of pieces by internationally-acclaimed artists that continue to attract art enthusiasts. “The occasion speaks of a serious commitment towards the promotion of art considering the political instability and economic recession the country has been through during this time,” said Gallery6 curator Arjumand Faisel.
The exhibition includes artworks by Ahmed Parvez, Ahmed Khan, Ather Jamal, Iqbal Mehdi, Mansur Rahi, Masood A. Khan, Rashid Arshed, Rasheed Butt, RM Naeem, Sana Arjumand and Sheikh Moin and others.
Ahmed Parvez’s oil on paper was painted in 1971, depicting the figure of a woman rather than his usual buoyant colourful abstracts and is bound to draw collectors’ attention.
The pen-and-ink work of Iqbal Mehdi from the early 80s is not from his usual drawing series of beautiful women, but of a poor man in ragged clothes with a vulture sitting on his head. RM Naeem’s painting is from his realistic works of the 1990s, in which he focused on the female figure in various postures and created moods with his distinctive application of paints. Ather Jamal’s woman from rural Sindh depicts a dignified beauty rather than the voluptuous women being painted by other artists in the province.
Calligraphies by the Islamabad-based painter Rasheed Butt, Ahmed Khan from Lahore and Rashid Arshed feature in the show. Arshed’s work is an inventive style which expresses new possibilities of using Urdu letters or lettering as the subject to compose his painting. In contrast, Butt and Khan draw their inspiration from old manuscripts, the art of linear writing and historical forms.
Masood A Khan shows a noticeable change by moving to black and white rather than his usual colourful palette but maintaining the same transparent approach. Also, the scene has a prominent Bengal influence not seen in his other works. Miniature works of the Mughal Kings are of the pre-partition days done by Sheikh Moin, who received meritorious certificates for making portraits of kings, queens and aristocrats on paper and ivory.
Sana Arjumand, who was nominated last year among the 10 most prominent emerging painters in India and Pakistan by a leading Indian art magazine, has again shown her mettle with new ideas.
The exhibition will be inaugurated by PTV and former PBC chairman Aslam Azhar and will continue till September 26 daily from 11am to 7pm at House 19, Street 10, F-8/3, Islamabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 12th, 2013.
Art may be timeless but it is time for celebration at Gallery6. To commemorate the 50th show landmark, the “Golden Jubilee Exhibition” will open at the gallery on Thursday.
Established in 2008, the gallery has come a long way in carving a niche for itself and houses a collection of pieces by internationally-acclaimed artists that continue to attract art enthusiasts. “The occasion speaks of a serious commitment towards the promotion of art considering the political instability and economic recession the country has been through during this time,” said Gallery6 curator Arjumand Faisel.
The exhibition includes artworks by Ahmed Parvez, Ahmed Khan, Ather Jamal, Iqbal Mehdi, Mansur Rahi, Masood A. Khan, Rashid Arshed, Rasheed Butt, RM Naeem, Sana Arjumand and Sheikh Moin and others.
Ahmed Parvez’s oil on paper was painted in 1971, depicting the figure of a woman rather than his usual buoyant colourful abstracts and is bound to draw collectors’ attention.
Some of the representative works of prominent Pakistani artists on display at Gallery6.
The pen-and-ink work of Iqbal Mehdi from the early 80s is not from his usual drawing series of beautiful women, but of a poor man in ragged clothes with a vulture sitting on his head. RM Naeem’s painting is from his realistic works of the 1990s, in which he focused on the female figure in various postures and created moods with his distinctive application of paints. Ather Jamal’s woman from rural Sindh depicts a dignified beauty rather than the voluptuous women being painted by other artists in the province.
Calligraphies by the Islamabad-based painter Rasheed Butt, Ahmed Khan from Lahore and Rashid Arshed feature in the show. Arshed’s work is an inventive style which expresses new possibilities of using Urdu letters or lettering as the subject to compose his painting. In contrast, Butt and Khan draw their inspiration from old manuscripts, the art of linear writing and historical forms.
Masood A Khan shows a noticeable change by moving to black and white rather than his usual colourful palette but maintaining the same transparent approach. Also, the scene has a prominent Bengal influence not seen in his other works. Miniature works of the Mughal Kings are of the pre-partition days done by Sheikh Moin, who received meritorious certificates for making portraits of kings, queens and aristocrats on paper and ivory.
Sana Arjumand, who was nominated last year among the 10 most prominent emerging painters in India and Pakistan by a leading Indian art magazine, has again shown her mettle with new ideas.
The exhibition will be inaugurated by PTV and former PBC chairman Aslam Azhar and will continue till September 26 daily from 11am to 7pm at House 19, Street 10, F-8/3, Islamabad.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 12th, 2013.