Koel holds ‘A Piece of Land’

KARACHI: Koel Art Gallery recently inaugurated a painting exhibition entitled, ‘A Piece of Land’ featuring the artwork of renowned Ahsan Jamal. Born in 1975 in Jhang, Jamal is now a resident of Karachi. He graduated in miniature fine arts from National College of Arts, Lahore. Currently, Jamal is a part of the adjunct faculty of the Indus Valley School of Arts and Architecture. A large number of solo and group exhibitions are to his credit. He holds the honour to have exhibited in the countries including India, Japan, Singapore and the United Kingdom. In the miniature paintings displayed at the exhibition, Jamal used mix medium including charcoal and watercolours. He used several beautiful techniques to create miniature in the exhibition that included paintings of size 8×10 inches to 20×38 inches. He captured various motions including celebrities, children, goats and man. A couple of paintings, including that of melody queen Noor Jahan and legendry vocalist Lata Mangeshkar remained the focal point of the exhibition. Through the artwork, he showed clash of emotions particularly with regard to Pakistan and India. To him, people at both sides of border, had relations, emotions and respect for each other but on various occasions, some harsh realities and governments diverted them to a direction where they had to follow the trend of hatred. His artwork also expressed a kind of fragility. Talking to Daily Times, Jamal said that he attempted to portray the mixed contrary emotions of hate and love, respect and disrespect, peace and war. According to him, the emotions of people were same on both sides of the border. He was of the view that positive or negative, people of both countries had some very strong relations and emotions for each other. The exhibition will continue till Jan 29. asad farooq

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