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Green Cardamom presents Not Made for Each Other a solo exhibition of works by Ahmed Ali
Manganhar in collaboration with the VM Art Gallery, Karachi.
VM Art Gallery, Karachi. 3 November – 14 November 2009
Daily 10.30 am – 7.30 pm (Sundays, closed)
Inspired by the techniques of film billboard painters, and with a wi...nk to ideas of life imitating art, Ahmed Ali Manganhar’s new series of works explores the formal techniques of the film billboard genre. Through witty manipulations of colour and texture he exploits the media to startling effect, critiquing what he calls ‘the central myth’ in cinema, of romantic love between a man and a woman, and claiming particular moments in film as moments from his own life.
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Manganhar in collaboration with the VM Art Gallery, Karachi.
VM Art Gallery, Karachi. 3 November – 14 November 2009
Daily 10.30 am – 7.30 pm (Sundays, closed)
Inspired by the techniques of film billboard painters, and with a wi...nk to ideas of life imitating art, Ahmed Ali Manganhar’s new series of works explores the formal techniques of the film billboard genre. Through witty manipulations of colour and texture he exploits the media to startling effect, critiquing what he calls ‘the central myth’ in cinema, of romantic love between a man and a woman, and claiming particular moments in film as moments from his own life.
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Time:5:00PM Tuesday, November 3rd
Location:VM Gallery, Karachi

This exhibition runs from 9th October 2009 to 6th November 2009 at the Green Cardamom gallery, Address: 5a Porchester Place, London Phone: 442074027125 Green Cardamom presents a series of exhibitions over the next two years, exploring the practice of the late Anwar Jalal Shemza (1929–1985). ...

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This study session which accompanies the display Safavids Revisited.
(Room 34, British Museum) will focus on how artists from Iran and Pakistan
are inspired by past traditions, and how they give these traditions new and
contemporary resonance. Venetia Porter, British Museum, and Hammad
Nasar of Green Cardamom are joine...d by artists Sadegh Tirafkan, Khadim
Ali and Muhammad Zeeshan, and their work is placed in context by Virginia
Whiles and Janet Rady. Read More
(Room 34, British Museum) will focus on how artists from Iran and Pakistan
are inspired by past traditions, and how they give these traditions new and
contemporary resonance. Venetia Porter, British Museum, and Hammad
Nasar of Green Cardamom are joine...d by artists Sadegh Tirafkan, Khadim
Ali and Muhammad Zeeshan, and their work is placed in context by Virginia
Whiles and Janet Rady. Read More
Learn more about Safavids Revisited
Time:10:00AM Saturday, October 3rd
Location:Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum

Green Cardamom Mashq Exhibition - Opening Night. Photos by Vipul Sangoi

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How Nations Are Made - Two connected exhibitions exploring the productive capacity of India's partitions.
Artists include Bani Abidi, Roohi Ahmed, Farida Batool, Rana Begum, Iftikhar Dadi and Nalini Malani, Anita Dube, Sophie Ernst, Ahsan Jamal, Tariq Khalil, Ahmed Ali Manganhar, Naeem Mohaiemen, Rashid Rana, Seher Shah, Abdullah Syed and Hajra Waheed.

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The word 'mashq' means practice, exercise, lesson or drill in both Urdu and Farsi. This exhibition explores how different forms of repetition found in everyday cultural practices –sewing patterns, architectural design and text – seep into artistic practice. Informed by artists working in the context of Islamic cultur...es, the exhibition investigates an often overlooked route to geometric abstraction and minimalism.Read More
Hamra Abbas, Rehana Mangi, Timo Nasseri, Imran Qureshi, Rashid Rana, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Hadi Tabatabai and Mohammad Ali Talpur
Time:6:30PM Thursday, July 9th
Location:Green Cardamom

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A collateral event of the 53rd Venice Biennial, at the La Scuola Grande della Misericordia, from 7 June - 4 October 2009.
We were delighted that the exhibition, curated by Jemima Montague included artists Khadim Ali and Nusra Latif Qureshi, whom Green Cardamom regularly work with.
Images here - photos taken by Hammad ...Nasar on his recent visit to Venice, also include works by some of the other artists in the exhibition: Aisha Khalid, Imran Qureshi, Shezad Dawood and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian.
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We were delighted that the exhibition, curated by Jemima Montague included artists Khadim Ali and Nusra Latif Qureshi, whom Green Cardamom regularly work with.
Images here - photos taken by Hammad ...Nasar on his recent visit to Venice, also include works by some of the other artists in the exhibition: Aisha Khalid, Imran Qureshi, Shezad Dawood and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian.
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Rider: new works by Ali Kazim runs from 29 May, 2009 until 26 June, 2009, Tuesday through Friday 12pm - 6pm. More information about this exhibition can be found here: http://www.greencardamom.net/exhibitions/exhibitions_page.php?id=37








































