The inaugural show of one of Pakistan’s first virtual galleries, The Paint Bucket is taking place today in Lahore.
The Paint Bucket is fundamentally an Online Gallery, and the first of its kind in Pakistan. “The Gallery aspires to provide emerging artists with a platform for their ambitious projects and to give them an opportunity to be recognised in the international art community” say Sehr Latif the founder of The Paint Bucket.
For the launch exhibition, The Paint Bucket has hand picked seven artists who have excelled in their respective fields ranging from painting to printmaking. The Paint Bucket plans for these seven artists to bring with them flavours of the various parts of Pakistan from which they originate.
Sehar says “The Pakistani art scene is growing rapidly, and now its presence in the international arena is turning heads. More and more galleries, collectors and platforms are keen to acquire contemporary art from Pakistan. Keeping this in mind and seeing that there is hardly any opportunity for many young Pakistani artists to promote themselves on a virtual platform that is accessible to local as well as international audiences, The Paint Bucket Gallery feels that they can help by bridging this gap in a big way.”
Pakistan is still new to virtual galleries, whereas the world has been holding online exhibitions, auctions and art fairs for quite a few years now and have been successfully promoting art globally. It is hoped that Paint Bucket follows in the same direction to provide young artists of Pakistan a platform to showcase and sell their art.
