Art Facts: Second glance

A two person show "Deconstructed Reconstruction" at Chawkandi Gallery, Karachi was a second glance on the reconstruction of the destroyed. The exhibition analyzed how to put back together these structures from its component parts and pieces and its remains that help in constructing it once again.
Sajid Khan painted tall buildings lit with lights against ruins of old buildings comparing them to establish our future from our past and present. In one of his paintings a trash bag full of trash emitting smoke and clouds of smoke gather over it was a conversation about our climate conditions and we must address this aspect of our society on urgent basis.
Sajid Khan's works was a reflection of the real society we live in. He addressed our daily life encounters and juxtaposed them with our traditional and historical events. He used ruins in his paintings as landscape elements symbolically to relate them to our modern day facilities and lifestyle.
In a painting he showed aerial view of Karachi at night glittering with lights against ruined walled structure to show today's comfortable homes to past mud houses.
"In these new works, I have juxtaposed two very differing visuals in a single frame. I have selected visuals that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye, and represent to me my relationship with my society. One image consists of the man-made, while the other consists of the purely natural. One consists of the developments by man, and the other encompasses the destruction by man. Each work is an expression of how I feel about the distortion of the natural order," said Sajid Khan in a statement.
Hammad Gillani combine moments to create an image that reflected behaviour of an individual or a society. The main idea was to highlight a single act on a very moment based level. He takes moments as the making of a thought process, an ideology or the understanding of a certain time frame or an era.
"I can associate my art with various art practices of any given medium. Just like how a single note is fundamental for a musician, like a frame for a filmmaker, the slightest gesture for an orchestra conductor, like how every form is essential for an architect, a single move for a performer, amalgamates together to make the whole act or work of art. This is the same way of how I perceive achievements, failures and extremism in the totality of human existence. Everything which we have become or have achieved so far is the intentional or unintentional constant culmination of meticulous moments," said Hammad Gillani in a statement.
He created simple images from stokes of a pencil. These lines talked much about his theme. He wanted to explore the basic medium which is needed to produce an artwork. In a process he tried to understand the basics of conveying an expression by a simple visual that was also less distractive for a viewer and also help representing a concept or subject to the viewers in a simplest way.
There are some basic principles for any work we want to do and so do painting an artwork. So by removing something that was not so relevant and not helping in making concept clear can be omitted to create a more clearly image. It can be a style or a medium which by deducting from an artwork can actually create more meaning.
"Emotion which is generated at any given event makes us more sensitive to our surroundings and gives us the ability to understand the process of any disturbed and turbulent behavior of either an individual or a society.
Majority of the time we only wish to see the superficial reality of an image, tending to ignore the process of manifestation of that image. We are only interested in the present reality; we never question how and why this reality is presented to us," he explained.
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