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Past, present and art
KARACHI: The Renaissance artists had a strong affinity with the supernatural. Their depiction of heaven and earth had a romantic dimension. The artists that came after them in the succeeding centuries found it terribly hard not to be influenced by the painters and sculptors of that era. One way or the other, they reinterpreted, and are still interpreting, the art of the days gone by in light of contemporariness.
Young artist Raza Bukhari, an exhibition of whose latest body of work titled Flying With Stones can be seen at the Full Circle Gallery, also intends to juxtapose what has ‘passed’ with what is ‘passing by’. However, much of this can be observed in the technique and the media that he has made full use of.