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Muneeb Ali

Words destroy, words create; they will be all or none, as you choose.

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89 works · Painting, Calligraphy, Sculpture · Lahore

Untitled, Sculpture 10, detail: Close detail of layered gold-toned letters cut from metal sheet

Untitled, Code 23: Cobalt blue paper with a white calligraphic flourish at left, one long white stroke across the sheet and a small orange diamond

Untitled, Code 19: Square black canvas with a sphere of interwoven pale blue-grey calligraphy

Square yellow canvas with an orange sun holding a tangle of black calligraphy, three long black strokes falling beneath it and faint orange script around

Such is their power.

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Code 07 · Oil on canvas · 72" × 72"

Words Into Text — solo exhibition, Ejaz Art Gallery, Lahore (opened 23 February 2023)

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Code 07 · Oil on canvas · 72" × 72"

Words Into Text — solo exhibition, Ejaz Art Gallery, Lahore (opened 23 February 2023)

Selected works

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UntitledCode 27 · Acrylic on wasli · 21" × 27"

Square black canvas: a pale silver-blue script circle at upper left eclipsed by a large crescent of raised gold calligraphy

UntitledCode 22 · Oil on canvas · 30" × 30"

Square black canvas: a broad body of raised gold script, a pale blue calligraphic stroke and a large gold diamond above

UntitledCode 15 · Oil on canvas · 60" × 60"

Deep maroon canvas with a dense knot of raised gold calligraphy at the right edge, long gold strokes trailing left and three gold diamonds hanging below

UntitledCode 03 · Oil on canvas · 36" × 48"

Polished gold-toned letters rising from a low oval base

UntitledSculpture 19

Pale paper with layered translucent red, orange and brown letter-strokes and two black calligraphic knots joined by a long black line

UntitledCode 24 · Acrylic on wasli · 21" × 27"

Two-panel crimson canvas with a large shape of raised gold calligraphy across both panels, framed by black and white brushed script

UntitledCode 13 · Oil on canvas · 36" × 72"

Polished gold-toned arc ending in a cube above a dense knot of letters

UntitledSculpture 26

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Wide canvas: a band of raised gold calligraphy crosses dense black-and-white script, with a small patch of red at its lower edge

UntitledCode 01

Dark red canvas layered with script, a long horizontal form of raised gold calligraphy across it with gold diamonds above and below

UntitledCode 14

Canvas split pale above and taupe below, a burst of black and white calligraphy straddling the line

UntitledCode 16

Square pale canvas with a vertical column of raised gold calligraphy, long gold strokes extending left

UntitledCode 20

White paper with a mass of black calligraphy below and a single stroke rising to a red diamond

UntitledCode 29

White paper with layered translucent grey-black strokes and a red diamond below

UntitledCode 31

Narrow vertical paper with a crescent of layered yellow, red and black strokes and black calligraphy

UntitledCode 33

Small horizontal sheet with broad yellow loops, red script and fine black calligraphy

UntitledCode 46

Small horizontal sheet with two clouds of yellow calligraphy joined by long strokes

UntitledCode 58

Silver-toned metal stroke looping upward from a tall plinth, ending beside a small cube

UntitledSculpture 04

Looping brushed gold-toned letters with a single stroke rising above a cube plinth

UntitledSculpture 12

Polished gold-toned cubes balanced corner to corner in a rising cluster

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Painting

23 works

Square canvas: textured black field above, gold ground below, and a small cluster of raised gold script with one long stroke reaching upward

Round canvas in a pale frame: gold-leaf ground with black brushed script on the left and raised gold calligraphy reaching in from the right

Square navy canvas with faint blue script and a cascading mass of raised gold calligraphy at left

Code 10 · Code 11 · Code 21

Oil on canvas.

Painting in the collection

Calligraphy

40 works

White paper with a cloud of black calligraphy above and a single long stroke descending to a red diamond

Small square paper entirely covered by dense green script

Small square paper entirely covered by dense blue script

Small square paper entirely covered by dense red script

Small square paper entirely covered by dense brown script

Code 28 · Code 34 · Code 35 · Code 36 · Code 37

Acrylic on wasli, handmade paper.

Calligraphy in the collection

Sculpture

26 works

Polished gold-toned crescent ring enclosing interwoven letters and small cubes

Polished gold-toned crescent ring enclosing interwoven letters and small cubes, seen from a second angle

Sculpture 22

Calligraphic letterforms in three dimensions.

Sculpture in the collection

Portrait of Muneeb Ali — Muneeb Ali

About Muneeb Ali

“It is an endeavor to create something new and beautiful, a fusion of the wisdom behind the text and the maddening passion of art.”

Master of Visual Arts, National College of Arts, 2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of the Punjab, 2014

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Exhibitions

All 15 exhibitions

2019 · Solo
Solo Exhibition
Main Frame Art Gallery
2019
Degree Show
National College of Arts
2020
Rang-O-Rams, Lahore Biennale Exhibition
Lahore
2020
Empowering Pakistan
World Bank, Islamabad
2022
Golden Words
Ejaz Art Gallery, Lahore
2023 · Solo
Words Into Text
Ejaz Art Gallery, Lahore

From the journal

23 February 2023 · 1 min readWords Into TextA solo exhibition by Muneeb Ali at Ejaz Art Gallery, Lahore, opening on 23 February 2023.Read the story

UntitledCode 05 · Oil on canvas · 48" × 72"

Enter a world of words and art, and let its vibrant colors cast their spell upon you!