Himmat Shah (B. 1933)

HIMMAT SHAH Born on 22nd July 1933 Himmat Shah has run great risks. He has risked much more by using a medium which is exhaustible and a technique which demands sensitive and careful handling. By remaining true to his commitment to an art that ignores the strategies of the art market & the materialism of the art industry. Confined to his studio Garhi, he appears a figure of adolescent unease, but, listening to him, one begins to discern the depth of the truth he utters. Shah remains a committed professional, true to his tools and occupational skills, maniacally obsessed with every detail that concerns his technique, which he has developed and individualized to an extreme degree, along with aesthetic concepts and ideas that flow from his creative being.