Kazim, Ali. (b. 1979). Untitled (Man on blue), 2005.
Pigment, mixed media on paper. 14 x 19 inches. Signed twice, lower right. Two tiny surface rubs, else in fine condition.
Ali Kazim is a contemporary Pakistani artist who began his career as a cinema billboard painter. He has since become known for the emotional charge and careful execution of his neo-miniaturist paintings of Pakistani men with a unique technique that he developed using powdered watercolor pigments infused into the paper. Ali Kazim's archeological treatment of historical narratives and place are visible across these highly textured watercolour portraits of pensive subjects, which use borrowed techniques from the Bengal watercolourists. Ali Kazim has exhibited widely across Asia, the U.K., and Europe and is the recipient of the Young Painter Award, Lahore Arts Council (2006); the Melvill Nettleship Prize for Figure Composition, London (2011); and a finalist for the Catlin Prize, U.K. (2011).
Kazim, Ali. (b. 1979). Untitled (Man on blue), 2005.
Pigment, mixed media on paper. 14 x 19 inches. Signed twice, lower right. Two tiny surface rubs, else in fine condition.
Ali Kazim is a contemporary Pakistani artist who began his career as a cinema billboard painter. He has since become known for the emotional charge and careful execution of his neo-miniaturist paintings of Pakistani men with a unique technique that he developed using powdered watercolor pigments infused into the paper. Ali Kazim's archeological treatment of historical narratives and place are visible across these highly textured watercolour portraits of pensive subjects, which use borrowed techniques from the Bengal watercolourists. Ali Kazim has exhibited widely across Asia, the U.K., and Europe and is the recipient of the Young Painter Award, Lahore Arts Council (2006); the Melvill Nettleship Prize for Figure Composition, London (2011); and a finalist for the Catlin Prize, U.K. (2011).