Solo Show of Mixed Media Works by Saba Hasan at Art Konsult, 23, Hauz Khas Village > 24th February-24th March 2012

Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Art Konsult, 23, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi-110016
Venue Info : www.artkonsult.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Green Park(Yellow Line)'

Event Details : Solo Show of Mixed Media Works by Saba Hasan.
One of the most significant abstract artists of India, Saba Hasan, well established in her city, Delhi, winner of the prestigious Raza Award for Painting, is being presented by Gallery Art Konsult in a solo this spring. In this collection, the gallery is presenting her relief paintings, installations and book objects, a result
of last five years of work, which stems from the technique or process, Hasan has developed towards her unique visual alphabet. She layers materials like fabric, paper, plaster, leaves, sand, bristling with nails or text to create works which are highly sophisticated and restrained but distill several complex possibilities of
meaning.Sometimes, she leaves these pieces outdoors to involve nature and the fortuitous element of chance in their making. The large works take a year or two each to get completed, absorbing the effect of seasons as well as time.
As an artist and anthropologist by training, Hasan is acutely aware of the interplay of cultural and political factors in contemporary art, she chooses expression which is oblique and open ended creating her own subtle signs through her choice of material and techniques. To quote her, “ In a postcolonial context, though aware of the global environment surrounding my practice, I would combat any prejudices against post colonial cultures andresist easy homogenization in the global wave.”
The transition in this show to three dimensional works is gradual and most natural in that she has chosen to continue working with text but now abstracted it further by using the whole book as her material and sculpting that to express ideas. Thus she powerfully and quite unusually, explores questions about
meaning, multiple truths, knowledge, what is worth preserving, in fact, aiming at the entire repository of human ideas and its future.
Saba, comes from the syncretic tradition of India, rooted in the plurality of many streams and her works reflect the spirit of a tolerant shared world, a reflection of her artistic and personal values of respect, equality, humanity. 
Her works are with private collectors in India, UK, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Japan, Holland, USA, Spain and France, like the Herkstroter Collection, Harsh Goenka Collection and OSIAN.
For more information on her, please refer to following books : The Indian Art Collectors Handbook by Dr Alka Pande, Ten Creative Forces by Keshav Malik, International Contemporary Artists by Olga Antoniadou, Islamic Art, past and modern by Nuzhat Kazmi, and Aviraam by the Raza Foundation and Ministry of Culture.

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