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Pretty in Pink
19 June 2020
Shahzad Saeed, owner of MainFrame Gallery in Lahore, Pakistan talks about his plans for a very exciting upcoming exhibition.
“MainFrame Gallery is gearing up for an upcoming art exhibition of monumental proportions. Due to be held in October 2020, this show will take place at The Mohatta Palace Museum located in Karachi, Pakistan. It was built in the luxurious seaside locale of Clifton by Shabbir Khan Mohatta, named after a Hindu Marwari businessman from modern day Rajasthan in India in 1927. He built the palace following the tradition of other stone palaces in Rajasthan, using pink Jodhpur stone in combination with the local yellow stone from Gizri. The amalgam gave the palace a distinctive presence in an already elegant neighbourhood, characterised by Indo-Saracenic architecture. The palace covers an area of 18,500 sq. ft and its facade is trimmed with windows, stone brackets, spandrels, domes and balustrades with floral motifs and exquisite railings.
“The show itself will house the collection of Hameed Haroon, current CEO of Dawn Media Group, a Pakistani media company based in Karachi which publishes the Dawn newspaper and Herald magazine among other publications, and operates TV channel, radio stations and websites.
“Consisting of over 600 artworks, the exhibit will not only be a grand affair in terms of size, but will also feature works by numerous important artists. It includes names such as Sadequain, Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Amrita Shergill, Jamini Roy, Damien Hirst and Norma Balleza.
“Having worked previously on individual pieces from Hammed Haroon’s collection, we were able to garner a trusting relationship. Our collection of conservation materials, mouldings and glass remains unmatched in Pakistan. It is because of this trust and quality assurance that we were able to work on his whole collection for the October exhibition held at Mohatta Palace Museum.
“Doing the framing for this collection was a challenging task. Only the highest quality materials were used to ensure integrity and conservation of these pieces. A few articles, including an 18th century photograph by Italian-British photographer Felice Beato, needed to be handled with great care. Another piece was a 150 year old textile produced in Palanpur, India posed unique challenges. Due to its deteriorated state and massive size, we had to devise a way to frame and converse it in panels. The Clarity by Larson-Juhl glass was used in two panels held together by an ornate wooden frame from the Larson-Juhl collection.”
4walls can’t wait to hear how the exhibition went and see more photographs. To see more of MainFrame Gallery, visit their website.
mainframethegallery.com
davidlunney.com
“MainFrame Gallery is gearing up for an upcoming art exhibition of monumental proportions. Due to be held in October 2020, this show will take place at The Mohatta Palace Museum located in Karachi, Pakistan. It was built in the luxurious seaside locale of Clifton by Shabbir Khan Mohatta, named after a Hindu Marwari businessman from modern day Rajasthan in India in 1927. He built the palace following the tradition of other stone palaces in Rajasthan, using pink Jodhpur stone in combination with the local yellow stone from Gizri. The amalgam gave the palace a distinctive presence in an already elegant neighbourhood, characterised by Indo-Saracenic architecture. The palace covers an area of 18,500 sq. ft and its facade is trimmed with windows, stone brackets, spandrels, domes and balustrades with floral motifs and exquisite railings.
“The show itself will house the collection of Hameed Haroon, current CEO of Dawn Media Group, a Pakistani media company based in Karachi which publishes the Dawn newspaper and Herald magazine among other publications, and operates TV channel, radio stations and websites.
“Consisting of over 600 artworks, the exhibit will not only be a grand affair in terms of size, but will also feature works by numerous important artists. It includes names such as Sadequain, Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Amrita Shergill, Jamini Roy, Damien Hirst and Norma Balleza.
“Having worked previously on individual pieces from Hammed Haroon’s collection, we were able to garner a trusting relationship. Our collection of conservation materials, mouldings and glass remains unmatched in Pakistan. It is because of this trust and quality assurance that we were able to work on his whole collection for the October exhibition held at Mohatta Palace Museum.
“Doing the framing for this collection was a challenging task. Only the highest quality materials were used to ensure integrity and conservation of these pieces. A few articles, including an 18th century photograph by Italian-British photographer Felice Beato, needed to be handled with great care. Another piece was a 150 year old textile produced in Palanpur, India posed unique challenges. Due to its deteriorated state and massive size, we had to devise a way to frame and converse it in panels. The Clarity by Larson-Juhl glass was used in two panels held together by an ornate wooden frame from the Larson-Juhl collection.”
4walls can’t wait to hear how the exhibition went and see more photographs. To see more of MainFrame Gallery, visit their website.
mainframethegallery.com
davidlunney.com
