A display of artistic potential

Show featuring 40 artworks begins at Grandeur Art Gallery

Karachi

You name it and it’s there. Conventional art, realism, expressionism, totally abstract art. It’s all there at the group artists’ show at the Grandeur Art Gallery. The show opened Tuesday evening.

Forty works adorn the walls of the gallery, each work a story of immense talent and artistic potential that prevails in our society.

They are all highly masterly. However, even among these, some stand out for their exceptional artistic expertise.

One of these is the three works by Aamir Ali. It is three profiles of women, women with chiseled features and radiating that typically eastern concept of femininity. One of these women is shown playing a stringed instrument. 

Aamir is a graduate of the Arts Council of Pakistan from where he obtained a four-year art diploma. He has also participated in shows in Pakistan, especially at the Sadequain Art Gallery. Aamir uses acrylic colour in his paintings.

Then there’s three works by Henna Nayyar. It is simple yet winsome floral arrangement. The floral patterns, though very commonplace, radiate a kind of beauty that puts one in harmony with nature. It is done in oil colours. Henna is a lyrical colourist, indeed. The three floral works are a real treat for the vision.

There are surreal works by Akbar Khan and M Huzaifa. The ones by Huzaifa depict the theme much loved by fans of Sufism, namely whirling Dervishes. There is something absolutely dream-like about the works, totally in line with the mysticism synonymous with Derveshes.

There’s also matter for patrons of abstract or modern art. These are the works by Abdul Qadeer, random strokes in bright colours, meant for any viewer to determine the subject in accordance with his imagination. It is just a collection of random strokes in the brightest of colours.

However, for a pleasant change, there are works of classical landscape paintings by Abid Khan. These are paintings of landscapes with bright red foliage as if to represent autumn.  The exhibition runs up until August 10. It is a must-see for art fans.