Beyond the Waters
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
INSTALLATION VIEWS
OPENING NIGHT