Solo show on paintings, drawings on April 20

ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of paintings and drawings entitled "The Bird of Time" by Jamil Naqsh will be opened here on April 20 at Tanzara Art gallery.

Naqsh is an artist of eminent stature and holds a key position in a still rapidly expanding art world. He is the best known contemporary artist from Pakistan, long famous in his own country and also well-established internationally.

For the past several decades Naqsh has worked with various artistic themes; however it is his favored one of women, doves, horses that he has explored and reinvented in myriad new ways.

His works have also been inspired by Marino Marini and most recently by Pablo Picasso. The sources Naqsh uses are very diverse.

One sees not only the impact of Mughal work and of European masters but also that of pre Islamic sculpture, said Noshi Qadir, curator of the show.

The 23 extraordinary canvases from this series being exhibited demonstrate his ways of paying tribute to his early days. He creates fascinating images of newspapers and against this backdrop paints pigeons, parrots, faces or a supine form, and old buildings and images from the Moghal era.

These words, faces, and forms all appear to reverberate the bygone days and offer a nostalgic glance backwards with glimpses of the familiar, domestic and soothing moments of pleasure that might have been left behind in the artists life.

The 16 graphite drawings of the female form being displayed have an extraordinary sculptural quality that they almost seem to invite one to touch them. He renders them with great dexterity and possesses that unique inherent sensitivity to the power of line, the curator said.

Adam Thomson, British High Commissioner will inaugurate the show that continues till May 3. (APP)