IMRAN QURESHI

• ThisLeprousBrightness ,

• 2011

• Opaque watercolour on wasli paper

• 26 × 34 cm

• Lovemelovemenot ,

• 2016

• Acrylic paint on canvas

• 135 × 90 cm

• GoingDeep

• 2018

• Acrylic paint on gold leaf on canvas

• 213 × 273 × 3 cm

Imran Qureshi developed a contemporary practice that has its origins in the tradition of the 16th century Mughal miniature art This practice consists in joining figurative and abstracts works on paper, Qureshi combines these traditional motifs, techniques, and symbolism with conceptual ideas, these ideas are inspired by the socio-political reflections of modern life The use of gold leaf and red paint is something that is used in most of his works, this is a symbolic representation of the vulnerability of the human body.

In most of his works Qureshi uses only gold leaf, red acrylic paint and draws flowers. The colour red used in his works is a representation of the blood that flows through our veins, and the flower motifs suggests the possibility of renewal and growth. In his work Going Deep from 2018, Qureshi splattered blood-red paint on gold leaf on canvas and draw delicate a pant called plant tendrils with white, this work is contrasting the violence with beauty, also Qureshi is representing in an abstract way the collective history of his country.

What I like from this piece of work is that is how the artist tries to represent and show the political aspects of the modern life in an abstract way and how Qureshi shows his ideas in politics with a traditional technique making a contrast with the violence done by the government and the beauty that life should be. Also how Qureshi uses the drawings of a flower to symbolise the beauty but the the use of blood-red which is obvious trying to show the pain and all the people that has been killed because of wrong decisions made by the government