Comments on: Interview: Riffat Alvi http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2009/11/interview-riffat-alvi/ Your Hotline to Pakistan Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:24:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Salman Ahmad http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2009/11/interview-riffat-alvi/comment-page-1/#comment-913 Salman Ahmad Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:33:15 +0000 http://www.newslinemagazine.com/?p=6652#comment-913 Perhaps Ms. Alvi is correct in her assessment. If things are left the way they are, our nation is quite capable of erasing its past. Its leaders are mowed down in their prime, its intellectuals are imprisoned, its talent is wasted, and its youth is destitude. Realizing the predicament, SADEQUAIN Foundation, a self supporting entity, has charted a 12 volume book series on Sadequain. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to discover, preserve, and promote the art of Sadequain. To that end, the Foundation is working on a series of catalogs of Sadequain, holds regular exhibitions of Sadequain's works, and conducts seminars at museums and universities to raise awareness about Sadequain’s prodigious palette. Sadequain's murals will be a permanent reminder of his genius to the future generations and his contribution to calligraphic art, which has spawned a whole new cadre of young artists, who now excell in the old forgotten art form, should keep his name alive for a very long time. As Sadequain said, "You can train a craftsmen, but not a genius." Perhaps Ms. Alvi is correct in her assessment. If things are left the way they are, our nation is quite capable of erasing its past. Its leaders are mowed down in their prime, its intellectuals are imprisoned, its talent is wasted, and its youth is destitude.

Realizing the predicament, SADEQUAIN Foundation, a self supporting entity, has charted a 12 volume book series on Sadequain. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to discover, preserve, and promote the art of Sadequain. To that end, the Foundation is working on a series of catalogs of Sadequain, holds regular exhibitions of Sadequain’s works, and conducts seminars at museums and universities to raise awareness about Sadequain’s prodigious palette.

Sadequain’s murals will be a permanent reminder of his genius to the future generations and his contribution to calligraphic art, which has spawned a whole new cadre of young artists, who now excell in the old forgotten art form, should keep his name alive for a very long time. As Sadequain said, “You can train a craftsmen, but not a genius.”

]]> By: Composer reinvents the piano, Interview: Riffat Alvi, Rumi’s Masnavi, part 2: Eric Margolis, A Date with Theocracy, | Tea Break http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2009/11/interview-riffat-alvi/comment-page-1/#comment-903 Composer reinvents the piano, Interview: Riffat Alvi, Rumi’s Masnavi, part 2: Eric Margolis, A Date with Theocracy, | Tea Break Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:25:05 +0000 http://www.newslinemagazine.com/?p=6652#comment-903 [...] Interview: Riffat Alvi - Riffat Alvi holds an eminent place among the 20th century artists who bolstered the art scene in Pakistan. An artist of considerable repute, Alvi’s paintings are showcased at notable institutions and galleries in the UK, Germany, Iran and Nepal. As director of the VM Art Gallery, which she has been running for the past 25 years, she strives to bring international art and artists to Karachi, and uses the gallery as a forum to teach art to aspiring artists. Presently, Riffat Alvi is exhibiting her art work titled Siyah Aur Safaid at Karachi’s Canvas Art. Alvi speaks to Newsline about her exhibit and the state of art and art institutions in Pakistan [...] [...] Interview: Riffat Alvi – Riffat Alvi holds an eminent place among the 20th century artists who bolstered the art scene in Pakistan. An artist of considerable repute, Alvi’s paintings are showcased at notable institutions and galleries in the UK, Germany, Iran and Nepal. As director of the VM Art Gallery, which she has been running for the past 25 years, she strives to bring international art and artists to Karachi, and uses the gallery as a forum to teach art to aspiring artists. Presently, Riffat Alvi is exhibiting her art work titled Siyah Aur Safaid at Karachi’s Canvas Art. Alvi speaks to Newsline about her exhibit and the state of art and art institutions in Pakistan [...]

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