20 artists worked on fitting 2020 into a virtual art gallery exhibition in Karachi.
2020 has befallen on the world and strung the new normals and virtuality together. Which are here to stay for a long time and nest in our minds. This year has configured things in ways that we would never have expected otherwise.
The house arrest and the isolation has made us long for things we never thought we would. Things we took for granted like going to work every day or a random restaurant binge have become a predicament. This pandemic has made the creators go virtual and online with almost everything from grocery to education. And now art too.
Artciti, Karachi’s famous art gallery has also followed suit with the virtuality and brought up art exhibitions to another level. They exhibited online on their website and called it ‘2020 The New Normal’. Not a shocker. Put down by twenty artists in a time frame of two months, the gallery has brought up the notion of embracing The 2020 and looking deeper into its upshots. It is what it is.
The exhibition revolves around the idea of homebound anxieties to safety precautions to the poverty crisis. It wraps all the ideas the pandemic has yielded. The art speaks volumes for the cons of house impound and the lockdown towards income, with high pitches.
These twenty artists have worked their fingers to the bone to wrap it all in limited frames with an oomph of optimism.
The virtual exhibition opens up like a virtual book that flaps pages revealing a whole newer message with soft background music. The book prologues with a brief page of what the artists aspire to convey. Followed by their names, paintings, colors used, and the sale prices.
The artists have gone beyond the pale with the ideas and concepts of lockdown with a nice storytelling demeanor. This could be part of history in the upcoming years and younger generations would try to learn about this pandemic.
The exhibition which started on 16th July will wrap up by 30th July.
So grab the ones you like as soon as possible and pay homage to the history that we are making.
