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SHAFIQUE FAROOQI

1942 Born  and basic education in Sialkot. Pakistan 1966 Diploma in Graphic Arts (PTT Lahore Pakistan) 1968 Certificate in Drawing and Paintings( NCA Lahore Pakistan) 1997 Master in Fine Arts (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

SHORT COURSES / WORK SHOPS:

1965 Worked in the Studio of Ustad Allah Buksh. 1965-68 Attended Art Classes at Alhamra Art Academy, Lahore Pakistan 1982 Worked with Prof. Anna Molka Ahmed,Lahore Pakistan. 1985 Worked in the Studio of Artist Harry L.Johnson, Washington DC, USA 1990 Etching Printmaking Workshop in Memar Senan University, Istanbul. 1991 Worked with Prof. Namik Denizhan, (Sculpture) Istanbu

1994 Training on the Job as Project Director on Vocational Education for Disable Persons, by SWOZ in Holland. 1998 Worked in the Studio of Tyfur Sanliman Huca on Spiritual Art, in Istanbul

JOBS EXPERIENCE: 1965-75 Graphic Artist, IER, Punjab University Lahore, Pakistan 1971-72 Audio Visual Aids Officer, NIPA, Lahore Pakistan 1975-80 Audio Visual Aids Officer, Pakistan Administrative Staff College, Lahore. 1980-82 Audio Visual Aids  and Publications Officer, Civil Services Academy, Lahore, Pakistan. 1982-90	 Advisor for Vocational Training, Fountain House Lahore, Pakistan 1991-99	 Project Director, Family Support Program for Special Children, Istanbul. 2001-2004 Faculty Member of Ajman University of Science and Technology Interior Design Department UAE) 2005  Established my own Studio, as Dervish Gah/ Farooqi Art Studio in Siddique Trade Center, Lahore

MENTIONABLE ART WORK AND COLLECTERS

Sheikh Zaid Hospital Lahore. 80 Paintings Civil Hospital, Lahore. 5 Paintings World Bank IMF Building USA Tam International USA Smithsonian Institute USA Princes Wijdan of Jordan Research Center for Islamic Art and Culture, Istanbul Press Museum, Istanbul Consulate General of Pakistan in Istanbul. ) Beyoglu Belediye Istanbul Bursa Metropolitan Corporation, Turkey. (6 Paintings) Purl-Continental Hotel, Lahore. 10 Paintings Fattier Memorial Hospital Lahore. 50 Paintings Ittifaq Hospital Lahore. 20 Paintings Pakistan Administrative Staff College, Lahore 5 Paintings Arab Security Center Riyadh Saudi Arabia, (20 Paintings) Directorate General Civil Defense Islamabad. (4 Paintings) Institute of Business Administration Karachi) PN Staff College Karachi. Lahore Museum. Ministry of Foreign affair Islamabad. (20 Paintings) Fountain House Lahore. (6Paintings) Lahore Metropolitan Corporation. (10 Paintings)

LOK-Virus Museum, Islamabad, Several private collectors in Pakistan and abroad. 91 Solo Shows in country and abroad

Participated more than hundred group exhibition in USA, England, Saudi Arabia, Germany ,Egypt, Sudan, France, Canada, Holland, Turkey, India, UAE, Bahrain, Masqat, Iran, Iraq National Exhibitions in Pakistan.

HONORS

1960-61                     -                1962-65                      -                1965-67                      -                1967-68                      -                 1972                           -	Vice President Student Welfare Society Sialkot General Secretory, WPYM Sialkot. President “Shaheen” of WPYM Lahore. Assistant Secretary General WPYM Lahore. Joint Secretary Punjab Art Society, Lahore 1982-83                     -	Member Art Committee, Lahore Art Council 1983                          -	Member of Calligraphist Association of Tehran, Iran 1984-85                     -	Chairman Art Committee, Academy for Disabled Pakistan. 1986-87                      -	Member Executive Committee, Artists Association of Punjab. 1990                           -	Member Art Committee Lahore Art.Council. 1990                           -	Vice President Calligraphist Guild of Pakistan, Lahore 1993                           -	Pattern, Society for the Advancement of  Mentally Retarded (SAMR),Lahore. 1998                           -	Secretary General. Pakistan Calligraphic Artist Guild 1998                 2012                            -	Chairman, Family Support Program in Pakistan Member The Cosmopolitan Club Lahore

20 awards and 15 honors from country and abroad

ART PUBLICATIONS 1-Symbiosis Concept in Art (Journey of Lines} 2-Poetery of Lines 3-Journey of Lines with Symbols 4-Journey of Lines with Calligraphy 5-Journey of Lines with Colors 6.Chenda Zaman ( Turkish Poetry) 7.The Tale of Drunken Flute in Whirling Dervishes.

FROM THE GUEST BOOK

I enjoyed the skill and colors of the work very much. I hope you can come to Washington. (Sheila Rottener, Artist from USA-21st March, 1985)

Very concerned choice of motifs; especially well-expressed atmospheres in the water colors paintings. A lot of sensitivity for the Punjab life can be felt through these pictures. (Pamela Oleranem from Sweden,Murree 22nd march,1985)

Extremely intrusting of varied show-the emotional contest, as I perceived it was fine striving. (Nancy Johnson-A Con. Lahore 3rd Feb 1985)

One of the most exciting and unique exhibition I have ever visited and even as a foreigner from England I can still sense the "Massage" Mr. Farooqi is including in his paintings. (Peggy Shepherd, Peshawar 2nd Feb1981)

I want to thank Mr. Farooqi or inviting me to this exhibition of colorful water color paintings which give me a fine impression of the landscape here in Pakistan showing at the same time a remarkably high object of his technical skill. (Dr. Schriber, Director Goethe Institute Lahore 15th Nov 1982)

It is an honor for me to open the exhibition of paintings of Mr. Shafique Farooqi. I knew of his reputation as an accomplished artist of course, best seeing for myself splendid way in which he captures the special light and a vanishing life style of his own province of Punjab has impressed me deeply, he is a God gifted artist who leaves one is no doubt of his talent, his perceptive eyes, and his contribution to the emerging talent in future. (Alberrt A Thibault, American Counsel General,Lahore 24th May, 1987)

On the afternoon of 3rd June 1987, I have moved freely in a landscape I knew well and felt delight in the patch of light in an afternoon say and the lonely road that reminds me of an early Jauhrabad poem. I will go where no read goes And the road will go will go with me All this reminds me of a time Before time began When what we are Was berated deep into snow. --- Much that is depicted in these paintings is Passing being changed through "Progress". Every painting seems a portrait of the artist. Well done, Farooqi. (Mrs. OTT Said, Lahore)

The Creative Qualities, skillful handling of media, intellectual response to the technique are the salient features of Shafique Farooqui‘s paintings. Creation of new worlds, with or without familiar objects, is a valuable and visual experience. His continues progress and struggle in various fields academic studies from landscape to Journey of lines, Colors, Shapes and lines are arranged on Canvas in a vibrant composition. The shapes suggest drama and movement by creating sense of space, while the lines gives the dynamic force and rhythm, like Paul Klea. Taking a line for a walk is Farooqi‘s unique style. He is going to have a great influence on the new generation of the Artist. Shah Nawaz Chief Artist PTBB (Retd)

ALIVE- ‘‘Having life ‘‘ not dead or inanimate; still in existence, force, operation; active; knowing or realizing the exisstence of; sensitive; marked by alertness and activity The above is Webster’s definition of a word, while at the same time, for me, it is about the most accurate way I can think to describe a man; SHAFIQUE FAROOQI is truly, alive. Whether this quality causes him to be an artist or whether being an artist deeps him "ALIVE’’ I know not. I do know that it is a rare privilege to spend time in the company of such a man of the countless ways the creativeness, talent and life within him chooses OT show itself, his art; the calligraphic paintings, watercolors and his land scopes, seems to do it strikingly. From the movement of his brush strokes to the range and variety of moods created by the choice of colors, one has to life by doing so. It is this city’s distinct honor to have, even for a brief period, the work of so gifted a man in its midst. (Harry L Johnson Chairman, DC Slide Registry, Washington Dc May, 1995)

From the press

Shafique Farooqi: A compassionate artist The life of a painter is generally assessed by the number of exhibitions of his works, and perhaps this is the only way which a painter can adopt in order to communicate with his age and also to enter into a dialogue with it. In this sense, Shafiq Farooqi’s career is fairly impressive. His paintings had appeared in a group exhibition as early as 1965, and have since appeared regularly in various exhibitions during the last twenty years both at home and in foreign countries. He has been honored with as well as for his services to the art of painting.

In Shafiq Farooqi’s landscape paintings, there is always a central object, mostly a tree that has attracted the artist’s full attention. He has treated it in the spirit of a portrait, and has generally succeeded in revealing the whole atmosphere of the landscape in reference to the single tree. There is always a question in his mind while painting him central object in his landscape; what is so peculiar about it? Thus while doing his landscapes, he is guided by their aesthetic and also by the paintings a thing of vegetative beauty. The soul of natural objects seems to be the theme of his landscape paintings.

In his mid-career Shafique Farooqi had taken to the painting of calligraphy. His calligraphic paintings aimed at painting the letters of the Arabic alphabet, and he avoided illustrating them in the conventional manner. He use the brush and the palette-knife in creating the mood and the harmony felt that the letters have a character of their own, which it is the responsibility of the artist to portray. His paintings on disabled persons have won him honor and distinction in Turkey, England and Germany, and has been prized most for his compassion for the retarded and handicapped children. It is interesting to note that Shafique Farooqi has evolved his own version of beauty which is not formally accepted by painters in our time. He has, however, gone further away in his symbolic art, and has portrayed the complex modern man as an aggregate of variegated personalities. This symbolic painting gives numerous shades of color interfacing into one compact figure.

As an artist Shafique Farooqi has succeeded in bringing anguish in the soul to his art of painting. Though trained on the conventional lines, he has evolved his own vision of creative consciousness and has completed a work which affirms his originality and commitment for beauty which lies hidden in the visual scenes, and which has been released only by him. His paintings have given something creative to his age, and in this lies his own fulfillment and satisfaction as an artist. “The Frontier Post” May 13,1993

Following the rhythm of life: Dance of life; ruins of heritage; saint’s saga; quest for light; silent unity-are some of the titles given to a set of ’line work’ by Shafique Farooqi an artist with well-established repute, both within the country and overseas His ’lines; while relying the calligraphic flow, rhythm and movement create images that translate his intuitive perception of reality-of the visual, as well as beyond the limit of visible. It's spontaneous and impulsive, from within. ’ I feel myself in the grip of ’ line’ as much as a poet may feel himself in the grip of words

There was once a stage in his art career when his talent focused mainly on the language of colors now it is the bold and free-following "line that rules him, speaking in figurative terms. Shafique believes his line works are an individual expression added to the national art scenario which, in due course, will become his identity, his subjective expression of creative art. The mysterious powerful lines (in black ink) are subtly patterned-though seeming most unpainted at a casual glance. Symbols like labyrinth, birds, fauna, images, vaguely representative of human figures occur recurrently in the array of this series From “The Nation” April 29,1999