Opening: 29. January 2015, 19h Exhibition Duration: 30. January – 28. February 2015
Galerie Krinzinger is delighted to announce the first solo show of Pakistani artist Waqas Khan who already in 2012 /13 was Artist in Residence at Krinzinger Projekte. His medium is drawing on Wasli Paper, a hand-made paper, which has been used since the 10th century in India for painting miniatures in particular. Waqas Khan, who studied print making at the National College of Arts in Lahore/Pakistan, models his filigree works after the Bardhakhat technique, a basic technique of Persian Mughal miniature painting. This involves the artist applying thousands of small dots, lines and dashes to the paper with the greatest of precision.
The points of departure for his drawings are the artist’s early experiences of his childhood and various personal stories that connect him with his environment taken from various contexts. It is the experience of time that is inherent in these stories that interests him first and foremost – time also as the universal, transforming entity accompanied by energy as for instance the perennial rise and setting of the sun. The all-encompassing air links all beings for which he has selected the dot as a metaphor. His artistic understanding could be described as follows: “Being a visual practitioner I cannot disassociate from the emotive energies of the cosmos, as their transformative phases are synced with me in person and my practice becomes its reflection.”
