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Artist's Statement
Rashid Rana returns to Mumbai after three years with a major solo show spread across two galleries and showing in a range of media. Having shown at some of the most important art platforms around the world over the last few years Rana’s Mumbai exhibition will showcase both new works and those created in the last one year.
It is difficult to under-estimate Rana’s importance on the global art stage. He has come to represent an entire generation of Pakistani Contemporary Artists. Moreover in terms of the Indian art scene, he is the first artist from across the border to have been so thoroughly embraced since partition era artists such as Abdul Rehman Chughtai and Allah Bux.
Between 2006 and 2007 he has displayed his work at a number of prestigious exhibitions, such as the Fifth Asia Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Galley, Brisbane, Australia; Kemper Art Museum, St Louis USA; 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore; Manchester Art Gallery, UK; Art Basel, Switzerland; Art Taipei, Taiwan; Gallery Korea, International Digital Photo Project, Loop, Korea, Albion Gallery, London; SHISHA, Manchester; the National Art Gallery, Islamabad; Shanghai Contemporary as well as multiple international art auctions.
Working both on major public installations as well as gallery based works, his art is now some of the most recognisable among artists from South Asia.
“Deftly traversing between the media of painting, photography, video and installation, Rashid Rana is one of the leading artistic voices working out of Pakistan. His works have been showcased internationally in numerous venues and most recently alongside Piet Mondrian, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Andrea Gursky in the Grid<>Matrix exhibition held in 2006. It is the aesthetic concept of the grid exploring the language of minimalism and geometric abstraction which serves as the link that connects Rana’s work to his mentor Zahoor ul Akhlaq.” (Text from catalogue ‘South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art’ auction New York, Christie’s, September 2007)
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