First Canadian Solo exhibition of celebrated Pakistani Canadian artist Shakeel Siddiqui.
November 28th -9th 2013 at Promenade Gallery, 943 B Lakeshore Road East
Mississauga
Opening Reception Friday 28th Nov, 2013 at 7.00pm
"Xenia of Antiquity" celebrates the professional excellence of artist Shakeel Siddiqui as he presents his series of new works in painting and drawings.Shakeel Siddiqui is a master artist and leading practitioner of super-realism in South Asia. Marjorie Hussain, a notable art critic from Pakistan acknowledges “Shakeel Siddiqui is a super-realist who has perfected a trompe l’oeil technique so that his paintings have an uncanny faithfulness to the objects rendered. Nothing escapes his consciousness. Yet the painting is much more than a reproduction of mundane objects, there are tantalizing glimpses of a particular life, detectable clues.” He is amongst the very few artists who took up the challenge to paint in super-realism and later in new realism. Marcella Nesom Sirhandi in her book titled Contemporary Paintings in Pakistan stated “Shakeel is the only artist in -Pakistan seriously painting in new realism…and [his] technical quality is flawless, with years of detailed portraiture put to good use”.StarBuzzOnline.com
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