Shahzia Sikander, SpiNN, 2003 - 2006, still from 6 ½ minute video, DVD. installation variable, Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co

DUBLIN, IRELAND.- The first solo museum exhibition in Europe of the work of Shahzia Sikander opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 28 March 2007. Comprising some 25 works the exhibition provides a brief overview of Sikander’s career and focuses on her most recent practice. The exhibition includes two of her animations alongside new large-scale paintings. While studying at the National College of Arts in Lahore , Pakistan , Sikander specialised in Indo-Persian miniature painting at a time when there was little interest in this traditional practice. She has described her choice as being regarded with suspicion by her student colleagues, the practice of miniatures seen as "excessively kitsch” and solely for tourist consumption. Sikander was determined to create a dialogue with tradition, developing an original artistic practice that includes painting, drawing, animation and complex installations. Now based in New York her practice also incorporates the aesthetic debates of popular iconography and contemporary cultural theory. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19709