Anwar Saeed<\/h2>

Anwar Saeed is a Pakistani visual artist. He was born and \neducated in Lahore. He graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts \nfrom the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore (1978) and \ncompleted his postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art, \nLondon (1985). Anwar Saeed is both a prolific artist, and was an \ninfluential teacher at the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore \nfrom 1986 till he retired in 2014. He is amongst the founding \nfaculty members to set up the first of its kind printmaking studio \nin Pakistan at NCA, Lahore.
\nHe works across the mediums of printmaking, drawing, painting \nand photography. He takes inspiration from folk and vernacular \ntraditions of South Asia. With masterful strokes he is able to create scenes that seemingly belong to the world of \nmagic realism. By deploying the art of storytelling, Saeed is able to comment and reflect on things that are \nhappening around him. The layered imagery in his work is usually centred upon the male protagonist to explore \nthemes of love, pleasure, decadence, pain, torture, societal oppression, censorship and the relationship of the \nself to that of religion to social and cultural values.

\nAnwar Saeed has exhibited widely. Most recently his work has been a part of the Karachi Biennale (2017), and \nLahore Biennale (2019) in Pakistan. His important group exhibitions are Pakistan Collection, Devi Foundation, \nGurgaon, India (2010), Rising Tide, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi, Pakistan (2009), Hanging Fire, Asia \nSociety Museum, New York (2008), Desperately Seeking Paradise, Art Dubai (2006), Contemporary Printmaking \nfrom Pakistan, Swansea University, Lancaster, UK (2005), The Eye Still Seeks at the Dougherty Gallery, Sydney,\nAustralia (2001), Pakistan Another Vision, Brunei Gallery, London, UK (2000), and Cairo Biennale, Egypt (1994). \n

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\n For Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, Saeed has revisited a past body of photographic prints. In these pictures such \nas Sandow\u2019s Act III (2012) the artist cleverly invokes the theatrics at play in the performance of masculine \nsubjectivities as exemplified by and aptly titled picture after the German bodybuilder showman Eugen Sandow. \nAt present, he is continuing with these investigations into masculine subjectivities and is working on two large \nsized paintings that are about the exploitative nature of love in a relationship that oscillates between power play \nand possessiveness\n<\/p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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