By Mahtab Bashir
ISLAMABAD: Rohtas Gallery on Monday opened its doors for an exquisite display of a series of contemporary miniature paintings titled ‘Miniature Revolution’ by two young graduates of Hunerkada College of Visual and Performing Arts (HCVPA).
The duo of Hadia Moiz and Babar Gull put on display their collective cache of 15 miniature paintings, revealing vast medium of experimentation in this particular art form.
The exhibition is an unusual application of contemporary miniature style.
Hadia’s work is a rendition of contemporary themes. She said, “My work is interpretation of my imaginations.” She said she was an artist who kept on thinking and exploring her inner self as catharsis meant a lot to her.
“It is all about what I think and imagine and ultimately I transform my thoughts onto paper,” said, Hadia, who got distinction in miniature paintings in 2005.
Explaining one of her untitled painting, she said her paintings did not have any theme yet had a lot of variations and multiple meanings. “It has mysticism wrapped in it as I have tried to paint freely when spirituality haunts me and I paint myself through it,” she said.
In one of her pieces, Hadia highlights a rare manifestation, referring to co-existence of traditional and modern art. “In this painting, water is spilling over everywhere as to me water is life,” she said.
She highlighted the idea of inter-relation of things and the concept of a collective human consciousness. Though the idea is both traditional and modern, Hadia uses traditional miniature subjects and Hindu mythic characters featuring the relationship of Radha and Krishna as an embodiment of love, passion and devotion.
Hadia’s work is also representing the serene world of flora and fauna as she used leaf, flower, water, greenery, love and beauty that made her a ‘romantic miniaturist’.
Babar in his collection of seven experimental paintings tried to transform miniature work on canvas, breaking with traditional method of miniature working on Vasli.
Babar said this was an age of rapid changes as variations were coming in every field. “Miniature art is mostly done on Vasli but I have converted it on canvas keeping the larger scale in mind,” he said.
“This series of my artwork presents miniature paintings in a totally different fashion as I have experimented to create a charismatic awareness about miniature paintings and made an effort to explain to what extent it can be manipulated,” Babar said.
He said the art of transferring from Vasli to bigger canvas was quite emphatic as well as experimental.
The exhibition will continue till October 15.
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