December 11, 2003 - August 11, 2004
Jamil Naqsh: A Restrospective
The Jamil Naqsh exhibition at the Mohatta Palace Museum, was the second major retrospective on a Pakistani visual artist after Sadequain.
Jamil Naqsh is considered one of Pakistan’s pre-eminent modern artists. While he received his early training with the miniaturist, Muhammad Sharif at the National College of Arts in Lahore, he left art school early and found inspiration within a range of cultures and contexts, but remained rooted in Pakistan.
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The exhibition contained over 400 paintings, arranged thematically. Painstaking research accompanied the exhibition in order to select a range of works from numerous private and Naqsh family collections that allowed for a comprehensive display of his prolific artistic career. This was the first time that an exhibition of this magnitude for the artist had taken place.
The displays showcased over four decades of miniature painting, drawings, watercolours, calligraphy and oils that underscored his core themes of women, pigeons and horses. Special attention was paid to his explorations of the Maghribi school of calligraphy with a publication titled Modern Manuscripts.
As the art critic Salwat Ali noted …this is not just another art exhibition… it is a comprehensive show that needs to be taken in, and savoured and returned to…
A catalogue is available in the Museum shop.
