The Grey Noise gallery in Dubai presents Half Light, the solo show by Pakistani artist Fahd Burki. It is “a distillation of experiences, dreams, archetypal forms, enigmatic and unresolved thought processes”, according to his own words. The exhibition will be open to the public until 3 February 2024.
In his exhibited works, which differ from his usual minimalistic ones, the artist questions the notion of scale. While some of the paintings on view fit within the canvas boundaries, having the potential to expand further, others are silent and ruminative. A stepwise banding of colour, a recurring motif in these art pieces, serves as a gradient in some and assists in morphing shapes in others.
About the artist
Fahd Burki (b. 1981, Lahore, Pakistan), who resides in his hometown, studied at the National College of Arts in Lahore, from which he graduated with a BFA in 2003. Burki pursued his education at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts in 2010.
Burki’s early paintings were figurative; executed in flat colours, they feature various symbols and shapes, odd machinery and unusual figures. Over the years, the artist’s practice has evolved, eventually leading him to a minimalistic approach to image-making. With repetition, symmetry, and intervals as key elements of Burki’s art-making process, his later works are based on lines, geometric forms, grids, and blank spaces.
The artist has displayed his artworks in many solo and group exhibitions as well as art events, which includeDaydreams (Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, 2022); India Art Fair (New Delhi, 2017); Social Calligraphies (Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2016); Compositions for Rest and Play (Galleryske, Bangalore, India, 2015); The importance of staying quiet (Yallay space, Hong Kong, 2014); New works (Grey Noise, Dubai, 2013); Artissima 18 (Turin, Italy, 2011); The cult of Man (Alhamra Council for Arts, Lahore, 2007); and others.
Burki has been granted three awards, such as the John Jones Award for Art on Paper (Art Dubai, 2013), the Dunoyer De Segonzac Award (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010), and the Landseer Award for Painting (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009). He also undertook an artist residency at Edinburgh Printmakers (Scotland, 2013).
To learn more about Half Light, please visit the show’s official web page.
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