Authored by Jayanthi Liyanage. Originally published in Daily News - Sri Lanka - January 29, 2010
"Imran Mir belongs amongst the tribes of Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky as he is an exponent of geometrical abstraction."
Video Highlights from the Imran Mir book launch
Press CoverageComment‘An internal dialect’: Imran Mir’s final paper on modern art launched - Express Tribune
CommentKARACHI: Late artist Imran Mir’s Twelfth Paper on Modern Art was launched at Mir’s residence on Tuesday evening in the presence of his family, close friends and colleagues.
The late artist and advertising trendsetter completed the book, titled ‘What You See is What You See’, before his death in October this year.
Revisiting Imran Mir - The News
1 Comment"It was his unique aesthetic sense that drew me and many others towards him and his art. In the personality of Imran Mir, one could not detach life from art — both perceived and pursued with the same level of intensity, which resulted in producing beauty. Beauty, like love, has lost it meaning due to overuse but, in his case, it was evident in the way he dressed, organised his house, produced his work as a graphic designer and created his art."
http://tns.thenews.com.pk/revisiting-imran-mir/#.VRjGqTvF878
An iconoclast of his time – Imran Mir (1950-2014) - Aurora Magazine - Dawn
Comment"I became acquainted with Imran’s work even before I got to know him. Working for MNJ Communications in the early 70s, we were taken to see the thesis work of design students of the Central Institute of Arts & Crafts (CIAC), at the time Karachi’s leading art school."
http://aurora.dawn.com/2014/11/01/an-iconoclast-of-his-time-imran-mir-1950-2014/
Imran Mir: The precision of chaos - Dawn.com
Press CoverageCommentIt is significant that Imran Mir’s exhibitions were each numerically titled “Papers on Modern Art” ending posthumously with his “12th Paper on Modern Art”. His aesthetic style, informed by his exposure to art and artists especially during his stay in North America in the early ’70s, allowed him to carve his own niche and he may be considered part of alternative or rather parallel histories of Pakistani art.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1161666/imran-mir-the-precision-of-chaos
Imran Mir: What you see is what you see - Art Now Pakistan
Press Coverage1 CommentA book launch and memorial for the late Imran Mir took place on Wednesday, 17th December 2014, at his studio house. The memorial marked the publication of his book, What You See Is What You See, and speakers Niilofur Farrukh, Shahid Abdulla, Hameed Haroon, and the artist's son, Kenan Mir, paid tribute to their late friend and colleague.
http://www.artnowpakistan.com/blog_details.php?blog=Imran-Mir:-What-You-See-Is-What-You-See