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AbU JAFAR

Lives and works in kings Langley, Herts Uk

SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.abujafar.com

Abu Jafar is an acclaimed leading conceptual artist and Philosopher of light, Jafar’s plan reminds of the Heron he sketched me on a piece of
the arts. Jafar takes his inspiration from psychology, philosophy, classical paper. I caught sight of one these large birds yesterday down by the canal
music as well as day-to-day human existence. By producing art that near his studio and thought (oddly enough) of Jafar’s projects as it took
is far from traditional, his art is the synthesis of colour, element and flight. His proposed monuments, his painting installations, the involved
presentation twisted into unusual form. art event he is planning reflect an unhurried interlacing, a body of work
”Jafar’s work welds together signature and painterly decoration as which I can neither wholly figure out nor abandon. This open question is
a ground, which then, (after a while) emerges as a figure working a pleasurable one, it has its own growing momentum as it takes off and
energetically within the environment. This shared emerging figure is accelerates across discontinuous fields, a swift, yet unhurried flight from
endlessly at home because it continually draws its own ground. Rather pre-industrial environment to a post-industrial one.
than basing a landscape on a grid we find its foundation in the movement when the distinction between city and rural life is washed away in a
of a dynamic arabesque in a flourish of signatures. tangled rhythm of roads there is an opportunity to investigate new sites
Jafar’s practice replaces perspective with the swift appearance and for art. Jafar’s project becomes for me a kind of writing between projects.
disappearance of fleeting figures, scribbles and signatures drowned in his It is able to draw itself as a multi-dimensional support, the continual liquid
works reflection. Rather than the griddled coherence of an American city basis for fundamentally heterogeneous realities. It works as a number
such as New York (for example) Jafar inhabits London as a site founded of proposals. It is the project of a starting manifestation of a immanent
on consistency of continual interruption. He looks for places to site his growth of artistic desire beyond itself. This drawing is one which indicates
open and active public art drawing on an experience of a sinuous line. and affirms a flood of sensational appearances. Abstraction ambition
Mobile, broken and sometimes difficult to grasp even as it catches the therefore becomes (momentarily and monumentally) animate.”
Essay by Phill king

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