Title: Saeed Akhtar
Description: Homage to the art of Pakistan's outstanding artist and painter. Saeed Akhtar (b. 1938). this monograph aims to serve as a thematic exploration of the artist's practice spanning more than 40 years. The content of Saeed Akhtar's art has always been aimed to put on view man's quest for the Divine amidst sheer mortality. Richly consistent yet inventive in nature, his drawings and paintings seem to depict tools for celestial intervention along with crafting vessels to hold the transient moment.
Subjects: Pakistani Painting, Catalogs, Drawing
Places: Perugia (Italy); Gakkhar, Gujranwala, Quetta, Lahore, Karachi, Kakul, Rawalpindi, Islamabad (Pakistan); Muscat (Oman); New Delhi(India); Seoul (Korea); Pasadena-CA, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis (USA)
People: Prof. Shakir Ali, Prof. Jamila Zaidi, Latif Chughtai, Prof. Abbas Abidi, Taufeeq Ejaz, Adil Salahuddin, Dabir Ahmad, NazirAhmad
Time periods: 1938 through 2009