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Recently curated a show inviting 9 artists under the umbrella to explicate, explore and experiment with the theme of water.
art review
It is said that an artist can express stories in a million unique ways. Quddus Mirza, an ace artist, and critic, recently curated a show inviting 9 artists under the umbrella to explicate, explore and experiment with the theme of water.
When you first enter, eyes instantly fall upon an installation fixed right in the centre of the gallery’s wall. This peculiar installation seemed like some magical board which showcased the spiritual words, ‘Your God Morphed’. Rabeeha Adnan is drawing attention to a crucial issue surfacing in the society but has become so relatable that one seldom pays heed to it; the issue of following bogus religious institutes and people who claim to be the stakeholders of religion. Divided into many sectors, these people have made religion into a mockery where anything could be said, believed, and followed bl
Full Circle (video still) by Anusha Khalid If You Have Tears’ is an unusually meditative exhibition. The works in the recent curatorial project by senior art critic Quddus Mirza at Canvas Gallery in Karachi radiate a mellow pace and astonish our expectations of contemporary art that represents water.
At first, viewers may enter the gallery expecting vivid imagery or sculptures that attempt to elementarily engulf the theme of the show. However, there is ample creative depiction of the life-building element woven into the exhibition as unexpected stories explored in various media, including video, installations, drawings, photographs and water itself in the form of ice.
Pakistan’s foremost watercolour painter, Qudsia Azmat Nisar, passed away in Islamabad on April 27, 2021.
She had been ill for several months at her Karachi residence when, in mid-March 2021, her brother Zia Siddiqui moved her to his residence in the capital city. Despite receiving medical care, her condition deteriorated. She was laid to rest on April 28, 2021.
In 2018, she received the President’s Pride of Performance Award for her contribution to both painting and art education. Earlier, she had received several international and national awards for excellence.
Over a span of about 45 years, Nisar made a pioneering and outstanding contribution to the country’s cultural treasures. She can be rightly credited with the virtual introduction of non-figurative modern abstract art in the country, by using the medium of watercolour and drawing. It is difficult to identify any other artist in Pakistan who used this sensitive, distinctive and difficult medium so innovatively, cre