Words, images and understanding
The installations entitled ‘The Last Supper,’ ‘Seclusion I’, ‘Breeding Slaves’, ‘The Enveloped’, and finally, ‘Narcissism’ are bafflingly dis-closed. Yet they remain closed....
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Looking for void
Surprises were in store for visitors at Karachi’s VM Gallery opening last week where an art installation based on a performance titled ‘Subliminal Voids’ contemplated the existence of the void. A...
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Celebrating Agha
Art publishing in Pakistan is on the rise. The latest volume to give visibility to the genre is a monograph on Zubeida Agha by Musarrat Hasan....
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Blooming hell
The French artist Robert Filliou thought that talent got in the way of genius. This is a pretty good get-out clause for the untalented, but it needs to be fleshed out with another of his statements...
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Strangers at home
An exhibition of mixed media work by three artists at the Alliance Francaise de Karachi last month expressed the views of artists educated in France, and their reactions to living in...
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Wanted: more art education
When you come to count them you find that for graduate and postgraduate studies in fine arts, the government has provided only a few institutions in the country: the departments in...
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