June 18-24: 11:30AM-730PM
Full Circle Gallery
Taking place at Full Circle Gallery, The Grid is a groundbreaking Digital Art Show with 6 accomplished practitioners of the genre – a collection of visual artists, graphic designers and illustrators focused on the fluidity of human forms, symbolism and abstract representations of concepts and ideas – of identity, vulnerability, ecology, conservation, justice, darkness, absurdity, existentialism, pop-culture …
Adnan Ali, Amara Sikander, Fatima Baig, Mahoor Jamal, Mariam Jajja and Sara Bokhari bring it all to the table – so don’t miss this excellent compilation of digital art at one of this city’s premier galleries. [/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”2596,2595,2594,2593,2592″ img_size=”large” onclick=”” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_custom_heading text=”Arrival City/ Karachi Chapter – Seeking Home” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_single_image image=”2599″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInDown”][vc_column_text]
Until June 23rd: Wednesday, Thursday: 1-5PM, Friday, Saturday 1-7PM
This touring exhibition, lead by the German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, seeks to represent the questions and struggles of human migration in the realm of visual arts.
The Karachi Chapter, focused on ‘The Afghan Narrative of Displacement, Identity and Integration’, drives home the complexities of continuous displacement and migration with its contemplations on the inter-subjective spaces of home and identity – ultimately two sides of the same coin.
Through mapping and commentary on the histories of war, refuge and belonging, this heavily researched curation by Marvi Mazhar, featuring participating artists Zehra Nawab, Danial Shah and Salman Alam Khan, will be a revealing exhibition at the Commune Artist Colony.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”2600,2601,2603″ img_size=”large” onclick=”” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_custom_heading text=”Invisible Visible Light Dark” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” css_animation=”fadeInUpBig”][vc_single_image image=”2611″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_column_text]
Sanat Initiative
June 18-26
Rahman Zada and Salman Khan’s exhibition is all about perspective and interpretation. Both are graduates of the National College of Arts in Lahore, and profound intellects deeply interested in the eerie nuances, fluctuations and contradictions of our existential condition.
Rahman sees our growing reliance on the invisible connections of technology and the ultimate transitions from physical communications to communication via battery powered devices as a conscious, voluntary form of severing links – as our nominal interdependence and interactions within an all-encompassing virtual network visibly grows, the invisible truth of our alienation from each other deepens.
Functioning on devices that act as a growing multitude of prostheses attachments, our future seems tied to the future of machines. Rahman depicts electric poles and switches where our sockets and limbs should be and wires for our veins, asking viewers to figure out their own sense of the war between nature and technology inside us all.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2587″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_column_text]Salman Khan, who similarly graduated from the National College of Arts in Lahore, is more focused on the politics of the present – of the grief and terror associated with militarism and talibanization. His work is a deep discourse aiming to bridge the gap between tranquility and aggression.
He believes all iterations of insanity are inherently linked to each other, and his seemingly violent, bold brushstrokes of chaos at once can be seen as detailed renderings of the shades of darkness and light – a singularity of fear transformed into one of contentment.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”2610,2609,2608,2607,2606″ img_size=”medium” onclick=”” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_custom_heading text=”Spacebar” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” css_animation=”fadeInDown”][vc_single_image image=”2616″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_column_text]
Until June 20th, 5-8PM
2018’s graduating class of Indus Valley School’s Fine Art’s major has put together an exhibition at Koel Gallery, continuing until June 20.
After the culmination of Indus student’s multidisciplinary practices that became their individual visual theses, this exhibition is a contemplation of that interim period of space and time, after graduation and before/during the manifestations of a young adult’s sense of destiny.
The Spacebar exhibition illustrates the void separating two microcosms of experience – an empty, abrupt, momentary blank space of separation before the start of a new chapter.
Catch the exhibition, careful curated by Nurayah Sheikh Nabi, before its final day this Thursday![/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.facebook.com/ARTTVPAKISTAN/videos/459904651238372/” align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUpBig”][vc_custom_heading text=”The Summer Show – Works from Rehana and Shakil Saigol” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_single_image image=”2622″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]
June 18-27: 5-8PM
With 20 artists names on the list, including Moeen Farooqui and Noorjehan Bilgrami, this is an elite compilation of art from a collective of the most renowned and accomplished Modern and Contemporary artists in Pakistan, spanning over 6 decades of work (1952-2013).
Curated by Hameed Haroon, this exhibition has been put on at the Canvas Gallery until the 27th of June. [/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”2618,2619,2620,2621″ img_size=”large” onclick=”” css_animation=”fadeInDownBig”][vc_custom_heading text=”Being” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_single_image image=”2627″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]
VM ART GALLERY –
June 18-26: 11AM-7PM
Maheerah Ali and Usman Malik are thought provoking artists and National College of Arts Graduates. Interested in a large variety of mediums, their works are intricately designed as layers of human transformations and evolutions that – once unraveled – lead us to core representations of existence and being.
Since graduating as a painting major, Maheerah’s work has been compiled in mediums of collages, digital paintings, animations and photo manipulations. The seminal thrust of her current portfolio of work is currently focused on the development of burning curiosity that takes a child through the realms of motion and identity – the curiosity that drives learning, invention and imagination. It is the fuel of our progress as a civilisation and the innate nucleus that truly brings us into being. Derived from that curiosity is the construction of images, imitating the minds fluctuating constitution.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”2626″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn”][vc_column_text]Usman Malik is similarly focused on the patterns and processes of transformation that are the ultimate tools of evolution. As a graduate in painting himself, he has shifted his focus towards sculptures and mixed media drawings, creating art that seeks to mimic the organic processes of growth, through repetitive layerings that reflect the transmutation of forms through medium. His work is a statement on the fluid, polymorphic state of being – an obscure space between abstraction and representation.
This contemporary art exhibition will be held at the VM ART GALLERY until June 26th – don’t miss a visual exploration into our oscillating physical, psychological and spiritual states of being.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”2625,2624,2623″ img_size=”large”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
