Wednesday, 24th March 2021. The show remains open daily until Thursday, 1st April 2021.
Mohammad Ali Talpur is renowned for romancing the mediums used in his creations. His love of formalist principles returns to Canvas with an expansive vocabulary gleaned from experimentation and research, condensing abstractions from representational images into parallel simulations of pure visual synthesis. His faith in the ability of a line to express building energy, unaided by recognisable or contextual narrative, translates to essence. Using watercolours as a means to emote fluidity, Talpur has created stark, eye-wateringly intense optical illusions in monochrome as well as carefully balanced colours, which vibrate with drama, in an explosion of thrilling sensory assault. Complementing this journey of celebrating medium, material and process, Talpur’s inspiration for decontextualised pictorial space evolved into removing human presence from famous historical photographs. Traces of recognisable settings mingle with stark negative space – familiar yet surreal at once, distilling geometry, nature, and archival documentation into subtly layered, minimalist compositions with visible grain; a painterly intervention to revivify beauty at its most essential – minimal, evocative, and unfiltered – the ‘appearance’ that seeks primarily to enthral the senses with delight.
(text from Canvas Gallery Facebook page)