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Anwar Jalal Shemza, Take 2: The British Landscape
 Anwar Jalal Shemza, City Walls, 1961
This September sees the opening of Green Cardamom’s second ‘take’ on seminal artist Anwar Jalal Shemza. Curated by Rachel Garfield, the exhibition explores Shemza’s practice through the lens of landscape painting. Shemza’s use of place and site in his work points to an ongoing theme of home, bound up in tradition and longing; a genre of painting that many of his English contemporaries were also working within, and with far greater recognition. Shemza, as a Pakistani, though resident and practicing in England for many years until his death, was denied the full scope of inquiry that his practice deserved. Garfield argues that by continuing to place Shemza’s practice within these narrow parameters, we fail to take on the maturity and breadth of his practice. By looking at his work through the formal device of landscape, even though his works do not fit into the traditional, pastoral, English model so typical of this genre, Garfield seeks to find new ways to appreciate and understand his art.
This second exhibition continues Green Cardamom’s exploration of Shemza’s work, curated each time by a different art historian, curator or artist. The exhibition follows ‘Take 1: Calligraphic Abstraction’ from October 2009, which was curated by Iftikhar Dadi and explored the relationship between visual and textual practice in Shemza’s modernist compositions.
Rachel Garfield is an artist and writer. She is a lecturer in Fine Art (Critical Studies) in the Fine Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.
On 30 September 2010, Whitechapel Gallery, London will host a panel discussion on the practice of Anwar Jalal Shemza and Rasheed Araeen. Panelists include Rachel Garfield, Curator of Take 2: The British Landscape; Iftikhar Dadi, artist and art historian; Hammad Nasar, co-founder of Green Cardamom; and Niru Ratnam, Director of Aicon Gallery, London. Time to be confirmed. Please check the Green Cardamom or Whitechapel website for details.
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Fatah Jay Aassay Passay/In The Milieu of Fatah Halepoto, book cover
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Fatah Jay Aassay Paassay runs at VM Art Gallery until 17 July, 2010. It features work by Imran Channa, Nizam Dahiri, Fakeero, Ayesha Jatoi, Arif Hussain Khokhar, Ahmed Ali Manganhar and Mohammad Ali Talpur. Curated by Hammad Nasar and Mohammad Ali Talpur, the exhibition explores the influence of Fatah Halepoto, renowned artist, teacher and writer from Sindh, whose teaching influenced a remarkable flourishing of talent from this area in Pakistan. The exhibition travels from the Sindh Museum, Hyderabad where it opened on June 5. A 104-page, bilingual (English and SIndhi) publication accompanying the exhibition is available on www.amazon.co.uk , through Central Books, UK or from VM Gallery and Koel Gallery, Karachi.
The publication and exhibition are sponsored by Engro Corporation. |
Christie's and Green Cardamom host event for collectors of art from Pakistan
From left to right: Amin Jaffer, Asif Rangoonwala, Kamran Anwar, Khurram Kasim and Hammad Nasar. Photo by Vipul Sangoi.
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Christie's and Green Cardamom hosted a discussion on 3 June on the subject of ‘Collecting Art from Pakistan’. The speakers were Asif Rangoonwala of the Rangoonwala Foundation; collectors, Kamran Anwar and Khurram Kasim, Amin Jaffer of Christie’s and Hammad Nasar of Green Cardamom. The event was held in tandem with the South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art auction, on 9 and 10 June. The auction made over £7 million in sales; an overwhelmingly clear signal of interest from buyers of art from this region. |
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Hong Kong Art Fair
Left: Hamra Abbas, Lessons on Love (foreground) and Muhanned Cader, Coded and Loaded. Right: Bani Abidi, Karachi Series 1. Photos by Kylie Tan
Green Cardamom at Hong Kong Art Fair, HKArt10, from 27-30 May. |
People at Green Cardamom
Our thanks to Liza Kenrick, who finishes her internship at Green Cardamom at the end of July 2010. Welcome to Priyesh Mistry, who will be working as an intern for July.
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A backward glance: the last quarter in images
Ahmed Ali Manganhar and Ayaz Jokhio, Medium as Metaphor (installation image). Photo: Vipul Sangoi
 
Ahmed Ali Manganhar and Ayaz Jokhio, Medium as Metaphor Private View 24 June. Photos: Vipul Sangoi
  
Fatah Jay Aassay Paassay / In the Milieu of Fatah Halepoto. (installation images, VM Gallery, Karachi). (L) Mohammed Ali Taplur,Untitled, 2010. (R) Imran Channa, Memories II, 2009. Photos: Abid Ali
 
Fatah Jay Aassay Paassay/ In the Millieu of Fatah Halepoto. Mohammad Ali Talpur, Fatah Halepoto. (2nd and 3rd from left and Abdul Hamid Akhund (3rd from right) at the opening at SIndh Museum, Hyderabad (R)
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