'Folding House' a solo show of paintings by Zarina Hashmi at Gallery Espace, 16 Community Centre, New Friends Colony > 11:00am - 7:00pm on 23rd January to 28th February 2014
Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sundays Closed)
Entry : Free
Place : Gallery Espace, 16 Community Centre, New Friends Colony, New Delhi - 110025
Venue Info : galleryespace.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Lajpat Nagar(Violet Line)'
Event Description : Gallery Espace presents Folding House, a solo show of paintings by New York-based artist Zarina Hashmi.
Working in paper and ink, Zarina’s work is inspired by constant travelling, after her family migrated to Pakistan in the aftermath of Partition and later as the wife of a diplomat husband. With intermittent stays in India, Zarina has since lived in Bangkok, Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and New York where she settled in the late 1970s. Perhaps as a consequence of this unique trajectory, her work is not bound by established forms and conventions. Across her career Zarina has borrowed with great confidence from different artistic traditions. Her works packs in the learned references of her childhood, including Urdu literature and calligraphy, but also Japanese printmaking and zen Buddhism, which she discovered while living in Japan in 1974.
As Hashmi says, “Folding House became the chronicle of my life. The house split by the dividing line, overrun by roads, its doors securely locked, a dark bulb at the entrance to light the way. Finally the house burned down before it collapsed. Homes live in the imagination and dreams of people who leave the place they were born in. Our past never leaves us. We hide behind our memories––until we come to accept that the past is already gone.”
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Entry : Free
Venue Info : galleryespace.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Lajpat Nagar(Violet Line)'
Event Description : Gallery Espace presents Folding House, a solo show of paintings by New York-based artist Zarina Hashmi.
Working in paper and ink, Zarina’s work is inspired by constant travelling, after her family migrated to Pakistan in the aftermath of Partition and later as the wife of a diplomat husband. With intermittent stays in India, Zarina has since lived in Bangkok, Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and New York where she settled in the late 1970s. Perhaps as a consequence of this unique trajectory, her work is not bound by established forms and conventions. Across her career Zarina has borrowed with great confidence from different artistic traditions. Her works packs in the learned references of her childhood, including Urdu literature and calligraphy, but also Japanese printmaking and zen Buddhism, which she discovered while living in Japan in 1974.
As Hashmi says, “Folding House became the chronicle of my life. The house split by the dividing line, overrun by roads, its doors securely locked, a dark bulb at the entrance to light the way. Finally the house burned down before it collapsed. Homes live in the imagination and dreams of people who leave the place they were born in. Our past never leaves us. We hide behind our memories––until we come to accept that the past is already gone.”
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'Folding House' a solo show of paintings by Zarina Hashmi at Gallery Espace, 16 Community Centre, New Friends Colony > 11:00am - 7:00pm on 23rd January to 28th February 2014
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