ISLAMABAD, July 1: Gallery6 on Saturday hosts “16 Days of July” that features 77 artworks by 30 artists from Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Chakwal, Jhelum and Jamshoro.

The exhibition has appeal for both serious and new art collectors since it has attractive works of renowned and upcoming artists. And the price tag ranged between Rs2,000 and Rs200,000.

The artists whose works are included in the display are Abdul Jabbar, Abrar Ahmed, Akram Spaul, Arjumand Awan, Abid Hasan, Aleem Dad, Arjumand Faisel, Amjad Hussain, Aziz Hasan, Abdul Hai Abid, Iqbal Hussain, Imran Hunzai, Irfan Gul Dahri, Irshad Salim, Kausar Iqbal, Mansoor Rahi, Masood A. Khan, Matloob Baig, Mohammad Ali Bhatti, Munawar Sulehri, Mutaib Shah, Nazir Ahmad, Ragini Upadhyay Grela, Rasheed Ahmed Arshad, Sadequain, Sadaf Naeem, Saira Amjad, Sana Arjumand, Shahid Hussain, Sara Noreen,Tariq Luni and Tayyeb Munawwar.

The variety included prints, sculptures, wood carvings and paintings that had miniatures, calligraphies, figurative work, landscapes, works in expressionism, and abstracts. Media varied from neem rang, pencil, charcoal, markers, water colours, oil paints, acrylics, oil pastels, wood and fiber glass.

At least 10 paintings were done by the renowned artists in their iconic styles. Ragini Upadhyay`s “Kursi Ka Chuska” presented an interesting tale of political situation in Nepal, which fit well on Pakistani condition too. Iqbal Hussain`s painting created the feeling of some moments of relaxation in the busy life of female sex workers through simple but powerful postures.

Mohammad Ali Bhatti`s Sindhi men and women were surrounded by colourful strokes and Rashid Arshed`s calligraphy works were aesthetic and as usual they did not use readable words or phrases or have literal relevance.

Mansoor Rahi`s drawings could be classified into three groups. One could be called “Synergy”, where drawings were done with bold markers and soft tones of charcoal.

According to Rahi, “This is like making a symphony with bold sounds of tabla and soft melody of sitar.” Second was “Volume drawing”, where the subject was drawn and dealt with the volume without the help of outline and the third was “Iconographical Contours”, which dealt with the intuitive spontaneous lines.

The display had other significant artworks. An striking painting in bright pink and white by Sana Arjumand, showing a woman with a soother in mouth, a very different miniature style painting of two conjoined figures by Irfan Dahri and Abid Hasan`s work on poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz created the essence of the verses and “ Phir noor-e sehr daste giraiban hai sehr se and Ayyae hath uthain hum bhi ” was absorbing, and Irshad`s Salim`s paintings on flood 2010 in abstraction were unique.

Wood sculptures by Imran Hunzai exhibited abundance of ideas that the artist had and the ease with which he executed them. A six feet long calligraphy on fibre glass by sculptor Shahid Hussain stood out gracefully at the entrance of the gallery.

This display will run till July 17.