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| Battersea at Moonlight, 2006 |
From 2 November 2012 - 20 December
2012, critically acclaimed artist Sacha Jafri will be exclusively exhibiting a
selection of works from his highly anticipated forthcoming 15-year retrospective
at ARTSPACE LONDON.
Sacha Jafri: 1997 – 2012 Retrospective Collection will rotate some of the most poignant pieces from his
seven collections - prior to the global retrospective tour that starts in 2013.
The pieces exhibited will
be from the following collections and provide a fascinating story of the
artist’s journey and life’s work to date: His Unconscious
Adventure; Universe of the Child; Kubrick's Factory Floor; Seeing is believing;
Disappearing Landscapes; and Kafka's Journey.
Ruba Asfahani, Art Director
of ARTSPACE LONDON, says: “We’re thrilled to have been chosen by Sacha as the
only gallery to have the honour of showing these pieces before his retrospective
in 2013. We are always looking for exciting artists to showcase in the gallery
and it’s a seal of approval from such a well established artist for the work
that we do here.”
British/Indian with Persian
heritage, Jafri is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. Having graduated from Ruskin, Oxford
University, with a first in painting, Jafri is highly acclaimed and popular
with both critics and collectors. At
30 years old, Jafri became the youngest living artist ever to be accorded a
ten-year museum retrospective (2008). The London Olympic Committee, HRH Prince
Charles, The English National Opera and Disney are just a few of the
commissions Jafri has been selected for.
Considered a pioneer of
‘magical realism’, his large-scale, brightly coloured, highly emotive, and
lyrical works on canvas are uplifting, evocative, and highly poignant. His
influences are magical realist writers and filmmakers such as: Kafka; Gibran;
Coelho; Mendez; Marquez; Kubrick; and Burton. His work explores ‘the transitional
world’ -‘the dream world’- in order to take the viewer on an unique and
elaborate experience.
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