'HOTA HAI SHAB-O-ROZ TAMASHA MERAY AGEY', by SHAHID RASSAM opens on TUESDAY, January 19, 2016 at KOEL GALLERY at 5 pm
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Jan 14, 2016, 1:30:50 AM1/14/16
to MOHD ALI HAIDER NAQVI, Ahfazur Rehman, Khalil Ahmed, Saad Ahmed, Pakistan Art Forum, Aqeelhasan, Aqueel Hassan, Progressive Writers Association - Canada, AMIN SIRAJ, Ali Adil Khan, Junaid Ahmed, Aminata Malam, Mahmood Akhtar, Ansar Yahoo, Anees Khokhar, Salwat Ali, Iftikhar Husain Arif, Abdul Razzaq Ismail, Aziz Kurtha, Azhar Abbas, Alison Rowe, Abdulla Al Amri, Asif Sehal Muzaffar, Chawkandi Art, Asif Khan, Abdullah Al-amri, Ashfaq Husain, Anees Usa, Aziz Jan, Ansar Hussain, Abdul Fareed, Andrej Orszag, Faisal Bin Anwar, Aneeq Ahmed, Alex, Adeela HaQ, Ameena, Asad Aziz Ahmed, Mary Ann St. Michael, Amir Raza, Abrar Abrar, KHAN Ali - C. I. O., Muhammad Azhar, Hussain Haroon, Sherry Rehman, Nageen Hyat, Junaid Nida, Fatema Hassan, British Alumni, Bianca Aslam, Common Wealth Foundation Arts Craft Award, James Adam, Baisakhi Mitra, Noorjehan Bilgrami, Gulzar Bombay, Brand 4tweety, British Alumni, Judith Bani, Gina Biju, Ashley Collis, Younus Bandhani, Mehmood Bhatti, Britishalumni Org Info, Brad, Ben, Baland
Shahid
Rassam who currently divides his time between Canada and Pakistan is a graduate
of Karachi University. He studied art at the prestigious Central St. Martins
College, London, under a British Council Scholarship.
His work
has been widely shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions locally and
internationally. In 2013, his painting was auctioned by Christie’s, in Dubai for
the UN’s World Food Program.
Rassam
has undertaken commissions for portraits of famous personalities, like Hillary
Clinton, Pope Francis, the Mayor of Mississauga, Hazel McCallion (the longest
serving Mayor in the World) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Currently,
Rassam is working with the prominent Indian poet Gulzar on Ghalib for an exhibition
in February this year at the VMH Museum Kolkata, India. He will also, by
invitation, lecture on Ghalib and his poetry with painting demonstrations at
Shanti Niketan and the University of Kolkata.
The
Exhibition ‘Hota hay shab-o-roz tamasha meray aagey’ at Koel Gallery is part of
his ‘Ghalib & Gulzar’ series.
Renowned
art critic, Dr. Akbar Naqvi has authored ‘Sense and Insanity’ on Rassam`s life
and work with a preface by the luminary Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi.
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