Pakistan’s top contemporary artist holds solo show in London

Islamabad.:  Attracted a beautiful engraved plates of Pakistani contemporary artist of the highest international fame, and thousands of visitors in the Albemrale, central London gallery:


The recipient of Sitara - I - performance excellence and pride and is characterized by his group concluded retroactively, in a statement received on Wednesday - a special month long exhibition engraving is beautiful.

It was a beautiful inscription holds a position key to change quickly the cultural scenes at home and abroad, and is also well established in auctions.As International, a student at the Faculty of May (now the National College of Art), like other artists, young Pakistanis of his generation, exposed to the most important figures in modern European , as well as works by great masters of the old European. Pattern to another source of inspiration, inevitably, and Picasso
, the last major work of new classic French, and Jean-Dominique Ingres.

Impact made by the Ingres is interesting, in particular, since Ingres, in some paintings was the leader of the Movement "Orientalist" in the 19th century European art. In the words of art historian Edward Smith Luice, re-engraved Ingres absorbed and re-establish links with the sensuous tradition, which plays a huge role in Mughal miniatures.

Pattern that combines traditional methods of painting Mughal miniature techniques with European approaches and has not mutually exclusive. As shown in this exhibition, the work turned engraving in a long series, despite the overlap in the appropriate topics. In Pakistan, probably the most popular for his images of the bathroom, or the woman and the bathroom together.

This was the show for the first time in London which dealt with some major themes in his career. "The exhibition shows how the artist with major gifts, coming from a background of the sub-continent has been able to engage in a fruitful relationship with Western modernity, and thus linking himself to what is now in the community in all parts of the world of artists-visual," said Smith.

Has taken a large number of exhibitions including solo shows him 14 in the art capitals of the world.