The Rising Tide

The above is a beautiful view of Mohatta Palace Museum on Sunday 19 December 2010. I went to this impressive place to see an outstanding art exhibition by 40 new and established artists. The exhibition has been named THE RISING TIDE : new directions in art from Pakistan 1990-2010.

It is being exhibited under 11 interesting titles:
1-Cartographies of Intimacy
2-The Urban Transitions
3-Language of Belonging
4-Ghosts in Turret
5-Mauj Media Collective
6-Desperately Seeking Paradise
7-World Plane
8-Between the Real and the Fabricated
9-If you are everywhere
10-City, Citizen and Space
11-Imagined Works Envisioning Spaces.

The exhibition will remain on display till 1st March 2011, it is a worth watching show.

Pigeons and a slice of light

The collection of forty-one paintings, rendered in oil on canvas by incomparable JAMIL NAQSH were displayed at Momart Gallery, and Book named ‘Pigeons and a slice of light’ was also launched. Book is about Naqsh’s most recent painting with a beautiful introduction “Myths and Memories: An Artist’s Inspiration” written by our finest art critic Marjorie Husain.

The painting at display are just breath taking, the colors and the usual rendering of pigeons in various positions is astonishing. All paintings with a singular subject are very different and engaging. Use of various textures shows the command that Naqsh has on his medium.