Fidelity to the creative urge
Text: Salwat Ali
Photography: Courtesy V M Gallery
“I consider myself as an artist in a different context”
Danish Azer Zuby
In a polarized art milieu where practitioners evolve within the ambit of their own disciplines one seldom comes across individuals with an all-inclusive approach to art. Encapsulating 40 years of artistic practice, in diverse media and disciplines, The Danish Azar Zuby Retrospective show at VM Gallery revealed itself as a one stop discovery trip for it unveiled an art personality who is a designer by profession (specializing in interior design) and an artist at heart. Danish Zuby has been functioning as a multidisciplinary artist long before the term gained currency. His repertoire titled A Quest for Art and Design comprising drawings, calligraphic paintings, portraits, newspaper cartoons, cultural photography, product designs, renderings of architectural works, and photographic reproductions of interiors are vivid testimonials of a romance with ‘art’ in its various manifestations.
A basic aptitude or propensity for a certain discipline inevitably impacts ones work ethos. For Danish Zuby “art” has been the crucial lynchpin that binds his considerable diversity, proficiency and prolific production into a composite whole. He has been able to pursue his passion and practice his profession in tandem because his life has been devoted almost entirely to the creative impulse.
Reminiscing about his personal preferences and professional directions he divulged that in 1970 when he left college after graduating as an Industrial technologist, he felt completely lost as his “inner urges were elsewhere.” Luckily, he says his breakthrough camewhen “I got attracted to and became obsessed with drawing, the mother of all arts. I learnt how to express myself very well in a few years, teaching myself through observation and study. At the same time providence had pushed me into the ‘Design’ field, whereby I learnt how to ‘think’. This was the beginning of my career as a design consultant specializing in Interior Design.”
Photography: Courtesy V M Gallery
“I consider myself as an artist in a different context”
Danish Azer Zuby
In a polarized art milieu where practitioners evolve within the ambit of their own disciplines one seldom comes across individuals with an all-inclusive approach to art. Encapsulating 40 years of artistic practice, in diverse media and disciplines, The Danish Azar Zuby Retrospective show at VM Gallery revealed itself as a one stop discovery trip for it unveiled an art personality who is a designer by profession (specializing in interior design) and an artist at heart. Danish Zuby has been functioning as a multidisciplinary artist long before the term gained currency. His repertoire titled A Quest for Art and Design comprising drawings, calligraphic paintings, portraits, newspaper cartoons, cultural photography, product designs, renderings of architectural works, and photographic reproductions of interiors are vivid testimonials of a romance with ‘art’ in its various manifestations.
A basic aptitude or propensity for a certain discipline inevitably impacts ones work ethos. For Danish Zuby “art” has been the crucial lynchpin that binds his considerable diversity, proficiency and prolific production into a composite whole. He has been able to pursue his passion and practice his profession in tandem because his life has been devoted almost entirely to the creative impulse.
Reminiscing about his personal preferences and professional directions he divulged that in 1970 when he left college after graduating as an Industrial technologist, he felt completely lost as his “inner urges were elsewhere.” Luckily, he says his breakthrough camewhen “I got attracted to and became obsessed with drawing, the mother of all arts. I learnt how to express myself very well in a few years, teaching myself through observation and study. At the same time providence had pushed me into the ‘Design’ field, whereby I learnt how to ‘think’. This was the beginning of my career as a design consultant specializing in Interior Design.”
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