[1]Amin Gulgee, a sculptor, jewellery designer, performance artist and curator, likes to encapsulate his expressions and render them into a powerful, personal lexicon interwoven with metaphors and forms.
The Karachi-based artist held his second solo exhibition, “Through the Looking Glass”, that boasts of 17 works of sculpture and an installation, curated by the distinguished Elizabeth Rogers recently at the Nitanjali art gallery.
Talking about the concept, Amin puts forth, “When I enter my workshop it is like falling through the looking glass. It is a world where everything is very unique. This is my private space in which forms and concepts that have been incubating in my mind acquire a physical reality. My objects demand to be made and until they are, they haunt me.”
His work explored through his chosen medium of copper, realms of abstraction and organic forms and motifs. Immensely complex and fluidly simple, his works transcend definitions of the medium and material.
His installation, Char-Bagh II: Falling Leaves, made use of copper, steel, mirror and sand. “The Char Bagh dates back to 6th century and was a four garden organisation that helped in organising space. This symbol of two perpendicular lines meeting at the center has been appropriated by many religions and cultures. It is an indication of how humans can share a consciousness. For me, art is a means to access a deep core that connects us all,” explained Gulgee.
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