In 2008, March, Sacha Jafri, perhaps the most celebrated artist In Dubai had started a two year World Tour with an auction for charities in Dubai. At the opening night of charity auction in Dubai, much attention was paid to a strikingly simple painting - a black canvas studded with rows of the artist's paintbrushes caked in rich colour. The auction had accumulated a total of US $ 40, 000 from the sale of Sacha's prints. The tour had thus put Sacha as a frontrunner in the field of contemporary art.
Sacha's World tour is now completing its first year and it is still kicking. Sacha Jafri is represented in Dubai by the Majlis Gallery and his tour's first show was also held there. Strangely yet, none of Sacha's works had anything to do with Dubai. His works mostly take the aid of scenes from London's city-scapes and transformed into fast moving semi-abstract works. Sacha calls himself a magic-realist and is said to have been influenced by writers like Marquez and Rushdie.
Sacha Jafri's most famous series titled "Disappearing Landscapes" has sold well in Dubai, Singapore, Austria and even Monaco. Outside Dubai Sacha has been exhibited in Alexia Goethe Gallery where once artists like Joan Miro and Raoul Duffy had exhibited. Sacha has also been hailed by BBC as a man who is likely to seduce us away from conceptual art towards painting once again.Infact in the modern times when even regular painters are leaving behind brushes for computers, techonology and shock-values, Sacha jaffri's tryst with paints is a matter of delight.
