By Kamran Hashim
Ocean Art Gallery one of the largest Pakistani Art Gallery dealing with the sales of Artwork hosted an exhibition titled ‘solo show by Amir Kamal’ and the opening reception of this exhibition was well attended by art-lovers, art-collectors, celebrities, businessmen and selected media representatives.
Artist Amir Kamal who specializes in calligraphic (decorative hand-writing) artwork, is one of the most renowned calligrapher in Pakistan. He has certificates on Arabic Calligraphy and also has a certificate on calligraphy from Turkey.
The renowned calligrapher had started his journey as an artist art during 1995 and started calligraphy during 2000, according to him; “calligraphy for me has been God Gifted as I was blessed with excellent hand writing since I was very young, and under the able guidance of teachers/international calligraphers like Rasheed Butt and Muhammad Ali Zahid my calligraphic artwork has polished even more”.
Having more than 06 solo shows to his credit Amir Kamal has also participated in many group shows throughout the world and has travelled to countries like UAE, Malaysia, India & Germany to showcase his calligraphic artwork.
Amir Kamal further went on to say that; “at this exhibition I have showcased 20 pieces of my calligraphic artwork, which have in them 99 names of Allah incorporated”. He further said that; “private entities like art galleries and entrepreneurs are doing a great job in supporting art and artist, and government must also step-up to support art and artist”.
Mr. Khalil from Ocean Art Gallery also spoke to the guest and informed that; “calligraphic artwork of Amir Kamal is valued so sacredly that immediately after its inception, complete artwork displayed at the exhibition was sold-out courtesy to Mr. Arif Ali Shah Bukhari from KASB Foundation”.
