'Modulated Ambiguities' Continues To Attract Art Lovers

The exhibition featuring the works by five talented contemporary emerging artists, who used different mediums in monotone paintings, is attracting a large number of art lovers and art students of islooites.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Nov, 2018 ) :The exhibition featuring the works by five talented contemporary emerging artists, who used different mediums in monotone paintings, is attracting a large number of art lovers and art students of islooites.

The exhibition titled, 'Modulated Ambiguities,' features work by artists including, Sajjad Nawaz from Bahawalpur, Usman Khalid from Rawalpindi, Muneeb Aqib from Abottabad, Imran Haider from Hafizabad and Abdul Aziz Meer from Chitral.

The curator of the show Arjumand Faisal said that each of the five artists comes from a different part of Pakistan. The unique geographies of the artists' places of origin and their cultural landscapes are reflected in the work itself.

Arjumand further explained that the idea was to bring together artists who work in monotone. "The beauty of monotone is that in the absence of colour, the artist must concentrate on the subject and give a lot of detail to their work because that is all they have to attract a viewer," he said.

Talking about his work, Sajjad Nawaz said that initially his work was influenced by his surroundings and indigenous cultural heritage and he painted portraits, forts and palaces that celebrate the culture of Cholistan, but then the Cholistan desert or 'Rohi' became his main source of inspiration. His focus became the landscapes depicting shifting sands dunes and panoramic views of cloud formations.

The shifting forms of nature are also the subject of Muneeb Aaqib's work, who is a graduate of Hazara University Mansehra and works as a teacher at the University of Engineering Technology in Abbottabad. Munib's work explores the visible and invisible forces which transform landscapes and natural environments.

Usman Khalid mostly works with mix media and concentrates on high contrast monotone imagery, in which colour is minimally used.

He stated "I prefer drawing to be supreme. The idea of envisioning something in your head and thus giving birth to it, on a piece of paper or fabric, is anything but ordinary." Chitral-born Abdul Aziz Meer uses his own body as a medium to make impressions on paper and create large scale monotypes. In his statement, the artist said, that he views his work as an extension of his own being and himself as a modern-day printmaker using his body as a plate and smoke as ink.

"My experience as a miniature artist allows me to look at my work quite closely and use the traditional techniques of Siah Qalam and Neem Rang," he told.

Imran Haider, while describing the process of his works,said, "I have been fascinated with crumbled paper and am currently exploring it for making my artworks. It all starts with very basic reactions to forms and dimensions the crumbled paper takes.

The exhibition will continue until November 21.