Deep in thought: Private moments prisoner with a finger stroke
All of a women in a paintings face divided from a painter and roughly all of them gawk solemnly during a moon. PHOTOS: COURTESY LOURVE GALLERY
KARACHI: Decades back, when Saleem Lalani was 18-years-old, he paid his initial revisit to a Louvre Gallery in Paris. Fast brazen to 12 years ago, he non-stop a gallery by a same name in Karachi though for a past 3 years, no exhibitions were hold there.
However, on Saturday evening, his gallery non-stop a doors and hosted an muster patrician ‘I Am Woman’, featuring a works of artist Zahid Hassan.
Hassan has been portrayal given he was 15-years-old and initial embellished landscapes and floral art. About 30 years ago he started portrayal faceless women since he missed his mother.
The 26 portraits on arrangement during Louvre Gallery uncover women fibbing on sofas, station honest and looking out of a window with their backs to a painter. All a women have their prolonged issuing hair open and are wearing possibly mostly red or beige phony saris or other normal clothing. While a paintings might seem suggestive of other, comparison design that has decorated Indian princesses or queens in their boudoirs, Hassan has a singular approach of portrayal that sets him detached from other artists of his ilk. “I paint with my thumb, unclothed hands, fingers and nails, all though touching a brush,” he said.
“As a child of 15, we learnt from a Germans how to paint regulating no brush strokes or blade and instead regulating unclothed hands,” he Hassan explained.
“I never uncover a faces of these women, since we wish an component of poser to approximate these paintings,” he said. Indeed, all of a women in a paintings are confronting divided from a painter and roughly all of them are gazing solemnly during a moon. Many of a women are acted sensuously, loose in status though mislaid in thought, withdrawal viewers to establish what accurately they are meditative about. Viewers do, however, get a feel of intruding on a private impulse by looking during a paintings.
When asked how prolonged it takes for him to finish a series, a artist pronounced it depends on his mood. “When we get enthralled in it, however, it becomes improved than a prior work. we have no remorse,” he said.
With 26 oil-on-board paintings on display, Hassan promises to continue for as prolonged as he can paint. The uncover will run compartment Nov 2.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 1st , 2016.
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