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Farrukh Adnan Noor Ali Chagani Noorjehan Bilgrami Rasheed Araeen Sohail Zuberi Usman Saeed Zeerak Ahmed

Beyond the Waters

Beyond the Waters

Farrukh Adnan Noor Ali Chagani Noorjehan Bilgrami Rasheed Araeen Sohail Zuberi Usman Saeed Zeerak Ahmed
October -22 October 29-2019

This show features the work of Rasheed Araeen, Noorjehan Bilgrami, Usman Saeed, Sohail Zuberi, Noor Ali Chagani, Farrukh Adnan and Zeerak Ahmed, and has been curated by Amra Ali.

‘The curatorial narrative investigates the subject of water as an idea and as metaphor. Embedded in the identity of spaces, these gathering of approaches archive individual and collective histories. The gallery becomes an uneven landscape, where we meander into conversations that are acutely and humbly aware of the proximity to the ocean. These works seem bound by an idealism and freedom to speak from outside of prescribed notions, as the art is vested in the cross disciplinary. The source defies spectacle. The thought, a line, imagery, the resonance of a sound, and text celebrate a bare simplicity and converse to hold the structure. This exhibition pays tribute to Rasheed Araeen and draws upon his early paintings (1950s) of the water at Sandspit Beach and Kaemari harbor in Karachi, and other works, that became significant anchors to his later abstractions and structural formations. The curatorial aims to provide a reflective space on his ideas on water in his work (book), ‘Art Beyond Art, Eco-Aesthetics, A Manifesto for the 21st Century’ (Third Text Publications, 2010); to initiate a reading based on this interface with a new generation of artists invited from Karachi and Lahore, whose approaches embrace alternate ways of making and reading art, close to the cycles of nature and reflecting the fluidity of water.’
Amra Ali
October 2019
Karachi

WORKS

Whirling – III

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 12 x 14 in. 2019

Land – II

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 12 x 14 in. 2019

View 1 – 100

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 8.5 x 12.5 in. 2019

Whirling – I

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 12 x 14 in. 2019

Whirling – II

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 12 x 14 in. 2019

Gardenfinds volume 5 unit 60

Medium: Watercolour on paper
Size: 36 x 72 x 0.75 in. 2019

Passage Calls II

Medium: Sound installation with steel drawing on wood
Size: 7 x 10.75 x 1.25 in. 2019

Folio – I

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 4.5 x 14 x 1.25 in. 2019

Folio – II

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 5.25 x 8.5 x 0.75 in. 2019

Archaeologies of Tomorrow: Horri/Horro boats of Karachi 1-20,

Medium: Found shims 2011-2019, MDF board, Paint
Size: – 2019

Folio – IV

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 6.75 x 12 x 1.25 in. 2019

Folio – III

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 8.75 x 10 x 1.25 in. 2019

Folio – V

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 6 x 10.75 x 1.25 in. 2019

Folio – VI

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 6 x 10.75 x 1.25 in. 2019

Folio – VII

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 6 x 10.75 x 1.25 in. 2019

Folio – XI

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 7.75 x 13 x 1.5 in. 2019

Folio – IX

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 7 x 8x 1.25 in. 2019

Folio – X

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 7.75 x 13 x 1.5 in. 2019

Folio – XII

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 7.75 x 13 x 1.5 in. 2019

Line Drawing II

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 20 x 18 in. 2018

Untitled

Medium: Metal rusted plates, rods and concrete
Size: 15 x 14 x 1 in. 2019

Untitled

Medium: Metal rusted plates, rods and concrete
Size: 34 x 10 x 1 in. 2019

The Indigo Sea I

Medium: Indigo pigment, silver foil, acrylic paint and gold on arches paper
Size: 10 x 10 in. 2015

The Indigo Sea II

Medium: Indigo pigment, silver foil, acrylic paint and gold on arches paper
Size: 10 x 10 in. 2015

Tasawwur e Nir I

Medium: Indigo pigment, silver foil, acrylic paint and gold on arches paper
Size: 10 x 10 in. 2019

Tasawwur e Nir II

Medium: Indigo pigment, silver foil, acrylic paint and gold on arches paper
Size: 10 x 10 in. 2019

Tasawwur e Nir III

Medium: Indigo pigment, silver foil, acrylic paint and gold on arches paper
Size: 10 x 10 in. 2019

Tasawwur e Nir

Medium: Video
Size: 3min. 2015

Land – I

Medium: Pen and Ink on Canvas
Size: 27.5 x 20 in. 2019

Watery Paths, Jackson Pollock, Greenberg, 2018

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size:

1. National Museum, New Delhi, Made in Pakistan, 2017

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 52×67 cm

2. National Museum, New Delhi, Made in Pakistan, 2017

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 20.5×26.5 inches

Harrapan Pot, Made in Pakistan

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 53×67 cm

Harappa, Figurine 1, Made in Pakistan, 2017

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 22×28 inches approx

Harappa, Figurine 2, Made in Pakistan, 2017

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 22×28 inches approx

Harappan Figurine, 3, 2017

Medium: Glazed Ceramic Clay
Size: 6.5 inches tall approx

3. National Museum, New Delhi, Made in Pakistan, 2017

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 22×28 inches approx

Indus Seals Unicorn/Bull,2 2017

Medium: Gold leaf on plaster of paris
Size: 1.5×1.5 inches approx

Indus Seals Unicorn/Bull, 3 2017

Medium: Gold leaf on plaster of paris
Size: 1.5×1.5 inches approx

Cave Art, Jo Merchant, 2018

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 68 x 53.5 cm

Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum, 2017

Medium: Gold leaf on fired ceramics clay
Size: 6.5×6.5×1 inches approx.

The Red Vineyard, Vincent van Gogh, 2018

Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 68 x 53.5 cm

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INSTALLATION VIEWS

OPENING NIGHT