ISLAMABAD, May 23: The Tanzara Gallery Thursday opened its doors to an international exhibition. Brazilian painter Dimax held his first solo show in Islamabad.
The exhibition, titled: ‘Conflicting Forces’, was stimulating and energizing, leaving viewers with long term impressions.
“Dimax’s art is modernistic in flavour. His visual vocabulary demonstrates a surge of creativity that has led to a lot ofexperimentation,” said the gallery’s owner Noshi Qadir explaining how his images were refreshing and intense, referring to anelemental passion that was both intuitive and instinctive.
His forms were skillfully stylized and simplified into spontaneously created geometric configurations where smooth lines overlapped and traversed the canvases with ease.
The paintings were well balanced and the energy floating around captivated the eye. The rich colour palette and bold compositions helped create attractive effects making the painting aesthetically pleasing.
“Dimax's paintings are vibrant, colorful, modern, and innovative and, above all, full of ideas. These characteristics are very much those of the young generations of Brazilian artists, of which Dimax is a representative,” said the Ambassador of Brazil to Pakistan, Alfredo Leoni on the day of the preview which was arranged for selected visitors.
Dimax found it difficult to define art. “For me there is no high art or low art. Art is intrinsic to our lives, we not only find art in museums, in galleries, in the streets, but also in our everyday life, in the way we eat, dress, behave, feel and see. Art is part of our souls.”
Living is art for Dimax because living is different from just existing, he explained to his guests. According to the painter, there are many ways to look at a work of art. Each individual had his or her own way of looking at a painting, depending on the background, education and, above all, feelings and dreams.
“Art is life and life is art. Art, like life is complex, has plenty of antagonisms, this is the reason I called this series Conflicting Forces,” said Dimax.
Dimax explained how he had always been interested in exploring new cultures and opportunities.
“I am very pleased to be in Pakistan and to be able to learn from the culture and civilisation of this country.
Dimax brought with him large scale impressions. The colours were probably used to reproduce appearances as well as evoke emotional senses. The brush strokes seemed disguised and at the same time exploited to some extent. In some cases it was difficult to make out the focal point in some works. And each work made its own statement.
The display will run till the June 14.