paintings exhibirion Tantalising Clues by ABID HASAN

Tantalising Clues on gold leaf at Gallery 6



ISLAMABAD: Exhibition of Abid Hasans painting titled Tantalising Clues opens today (Saturday) at Gallery 6.

Abid Hasan, a graduate from Karachi School of Art (KSA), has used gold leaf for painting halos, crowns, thrones and background areas.

Though gold paint has replaced the use of gold leaf in paintings but Abid revived the use of gold and silver leafs. A visiting faculty member at KSA for drawing classes, Abid works as an interior designer and a professional painter.

He has worked with renowned painter Ahmed Khan in Lahore, where he learnt to play with effects of chemicals on gold and silver leafs. Over a decade, he has been experimenting and using this chemical process to create his paintings.

The artist covers imported plywood or sometimes canvas with a thin layer of gold or silver leafs. He blocks out certain areas by wax or paper, depending on the texture and imagery he wants to create, and then apply oxidizing chemicals.

This results in sensitive surfaces with interesting textures. Following this, paints are applied in a number of ways to finish the painting.

Abids paintings strongly reflect an attempt of a bright, vibrant but a hungry soul seeking a way to be heard. The viewers speak of wonderful tantalising clues visually demonstrating the joyful spirit.

They are moved by his artwork, but they may not really know why. It has something to do with their soul being shaken, gently or violently, into a specific awareness.

It is a truly wonderful thing to be touched by a piece of art. Viewers find themselves slowly being drawn into paintings.

Commenting at the preview of the exhibition, Dr Arjumand Faisel, the curator of Gallery 6, said there were times when people needed certain colours as they played a healing and therapeutic role on them.

Indefinite shapes or patterns such as those of Howard Hodgkin show a very positive association. They can change erratic thinking, persuade a mind to pause and then take a different direction, and even spark positive impulses in a creative person.

Colours nourish the soul in a way nothing else does sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously. Abid paints with bright vibrant colours that feed the soul. This is his way of helping the world come more alive and cheerful, Arjumand said.

Sana Arjumand, an artist, said to describe a work of abstract art, people used words like feelings, emotions, and soul. I think these words are clues to what is actually happening within both the viewer and the artist. The viewers are compelled to have a dialogue with these clues within hues created by Abid. You cannot walk away without establishing a relationship with at least one painting, Sana said.

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