Mohammad Ali Talpur at gallery:space
Private view - 12 July 2007 8-9pm
Exhibition continues to 29 July, Tuesday-Sunday 11-6
Mohammad Ali Talpur's current body of work stemmed from his desire to make "art without content"- to go back to the craft of drawing. Sitting on the rooftop of his studio, he began tracing the flight paths of birds with felt tip on paper and this developed into his current series of work where he meditatively,sometimes obsessively, immerses himself in the line:closely woven, intense clusters of lines in ink on paper/ and acrylic on canvas.
His lines loosen, yet his work maintains their woven quality in his machine drawings series, where he manipulates a printing press used to produce school exercise books.
Mohammad Ali lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan and graduated from Lahore's National College of Arts in 1998. His work has been exhibited in the subcontinent and more recently in London, as part of the "Punctured and Unravelled" exhibition by Green Cardamom. Mohammad Ali is one of 20 international artists selected for the "Best of Discovery" Exhibition at the inaugural Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair.
Green Cardamom is an international arts organisation. It develops and run visual arts projects in collaboration with public museums and galleries. These are informed by a South Asian cultural perspective, and situate work in an international context not skewed towards a Euro-American outlook. The organisation runs a separate gallery programme, and represents contemporary artists from Pakistan, South and Central Asia and the Middle East. Green Cardamom works on a not-for-profit basis.
Link to Mohammad Ali Talpur's work (Green Cardamom)