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Illustrating the thinking of a life work, the first room is a flowing space reflecting the development of Araeen’s past and ongoing research. In the reading of the environment, photographic records of the pierced performance, painting, collage and large-scale structure sculptures wrap around the viewer with their geometric and minimal complex shapes.

Rasheed Araeen’s (Karachi, 1935) groundbreaking interpretations of Minimalism were born out of his academic undertaking in civil engineering. When he realized that the profession did not satisfy his artistic needs, he traded the rigidity of …