Salman Asif – Scarecrow

The erudite and talented art critic, author and artist Aasim Akhtar puts on an exhibit at White Wall Art Gallery in Lahore, titled ‘Scarecrow’. It is just as arcane as infinitely tempting to fathom: what kind of art encounters you when a consummate art critic and an accomplished essayist creates and exhibits it? Aasim Akhtar’s solo […]

Eclipsed Shadows: Anatomical Reveries in Aasim Akhtar’s ‘Scarecrow’

In ‘Scarecrow,’ we are invited to experience Akhtar’s new body of work in the form of a solo presentation. The stoicism within these compositions carries minimalistic restraint and compositional subterfuge. His use of line is reminiscent of Goya’s “Los Caprichos,” yet uniquely his own, capturing an evocative interplay of light and shadow, and human and […]