Category: In Focus
Conversation | About and Around LB01
“Conversation” is one of the three key components of the inaugural Lahore Biennale, the other two being Research and Mapping. A series o [...]
The Artist Statement
The necessity of the artist statement is agreed upon by all but those involved. In conversations with artists and critics, one often comes across a di [...]
Excerpts from Statements by an Artist
In his artist’s statement, “Traces of Ecstasy,” Rotimi Fani-Kayode starts off by talking about destiny, and taking a cue from him I will start this do [...]
The Art of Keeping Alive
It is subject to debate on the accuracy of its completion, however we know that Leonardo Da Vinci finished painting the famous Mona Lisa in early 1500 [...]
‘We are such stuff / As dreams are made on…’
Long before John Keats wrote of the immortality of a Grecian urn, its fossilised occupants, and the permanence of art, the elite of 3rd century Egypt [...]
His Master’s Brush
It may seem strange that so much doubt is possible about the oeuvre of so well known an artist. At least seven signed Sadequains and countless Jamil N [...]
The Art of Forging Art
Back in early 70’s, when I was Principal of the Central institute of Arts and Crafts, Karachi, a woman carrying a painting under her arm walked into m [...]
Consorting with the Four-Legged
I recently chanced upon a new addition to my mother’s vast, personal library – a small, colourful book on spirit animals. Amongst the many volumes on [...]
Depictions of the Dragon in an early Islamic astrological manuscript
Similar to today’s contemporary culture, pictorial representations in early Islamic manuscripts and literature were highly influenced by social and po [...]
Hermann Nitsch: Sacrifice and the Crises of Performance Art
Animals have been depicted in art for some 40,000 years. Starting with Paleolithic cave paintings animals have continuously appeared in religious and [...]