Revisiting Eminent Artist Zahoorul Akhlaq at KLF 2014

[Niilofur Farrukh]

 

REVISITING ZAHOOR

Launch of  

The Rest Is Silence by Roger Connah

at

KARACHI LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2014

 

Friday 7 Feb,2014, 3.30 to 4.00 pm sharp at Room 007, Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi.

The launch of this unconventional biography of Zahoorul Akhlaq, Pakistan’s eminent painter will create an opportunity after 15 years of his violent death, to revisit the oeuvre and the context in which the artist built his influential career.    

A must attend for Zahoor’s friends, art enthusiasts, art educators, art students and art critics interested in the artist who inspired Neo- Miniature Painting and mentored many young artists like Shahzia Sikander and Rashid Rana among others, who went on to achieve international success.  

Panel Discussion moderated by Niilofur Farrukh, art critic and Founder Editor of NuktaArt

With

Zohra Hussain, Founder and Director of Chawkhandi Gallery which extensively exhibited Zahoor’s work through the 1990s.

Saquib Hanif, former Editor of Herald. A prolific writer on art in the 1990s. Saquib conceptualized and conducted critical debates on art for his program ‘Framed’ ( 2009) on Dawn TV.

Shahana Rajhani, emerging art critic. She holds a BA in History of Art from University of Cambridge and a Masters in Art History and Curatorial Studies from University of British Columbia, Canada.

              This launch has been specially conceptualized for KLF by Niilofur Farrukh  

Niilofur Farrukh
Editor
NuktaArt
www.nuktaartmag.com

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By Bill Quigley, human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans and Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

 

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr