LAHORE: A rare collection of artworks was put on display at Suleman Dawood School of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), on Saturday.

The exhibition will remain on for 12 months.

It`s an art project by AAN Foundation in collaboration with LUMS to introduce the first longterm loan of art from a private collection to an institution in Pakistan. Seventeen worl(s were on display at the permanent exhibition. The worl(s are by modern masters like Sadequain, Gulgee and Jamil Naqsh. The project also includes works of contemporary artists Imran Qureshi, Aisha Khalid, Naiza Khan, Faiza Butt and Muhammad Zeeshan.

Vice Chancellor Dr Sohail H Naqvi said that Ali Naqvi and Amna Naqvi, the co-founders of AAN Foundation, were distinguished art collectors. He said he was delighted at this partnership between LUMS and its accomplished alumni Amna and Ali Naqvi who had brought selected artworks from the AAN collection to the university and allowing the entire LUMS family to benefit from it for a year.

Naqvi said that to look after the permanent display of artworks, LUMS had formed a Fine Arts Society.

Ms Naqvi, the co-founder of AAN Foundation, said culture defined who we were and if that was not shared, disseminated and hence preserved, it could get lost.

`Art and culture always fall prey to rampanthomogenization and we felt that there were ideas, philosophies, voices and opinions that needed to be discovered and explored,` she said.

Ai Naqvi said, `We are delighted to collaborate with LUMS on this project and to share works from the AAN Collection with the public.`Believed to be the largest and mostcomprehensive collection of Pakistan visual art to date, the AAN collection itself is a private collection of Asian art primarily focused on Pakistani modern and contemporary art.

The collection consists of works ranging from the third Century Gandhara sculptures to works of art by contemporary artists.