faiyaz jafri - selected works

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Faiyaz Jafriselected works

Faiyaz Jafriselected works

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I have always wanted to tell stories that could be read by anybody.In order to make my stories universally legible I choose themes and protagonists that are stereotypical and utilize a concise visual language with a deep emotional undertone.

My art explores Jungian archetypes in the modern world. In addition I search for neo-archetypes in mass media and global popular culture. An important neo-archetype is the Bambi character which to me has a seductive and an innocent side. This duality is a prominent theme in my work.

Compulsion for total control and perfection has made the computer my medium of choice. At the same time, the technology I use is new and rapidly advancing, allowing me to experiment with a new aesthetics as of yet unexplored. This gives me the freedom to create my own aesthetics within the medium.

Forewordby Faiyaz Jafri

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Sci-fi plastic surgery vixens, computer generated nymphs, Bambis, voluptuous peaches, and yet more Bambis; these represent just a small selection of Faiyaz Jafri’s work. Some of his art might verge on the obscene and yet other works by the New York based artist are positively oozing unadulterated cuteness. He seems to have an obvious obsession with the Bambi character. The perky bummed deer pops up frequently in Jafri’s work. Displaying both her innocent and seductive side, providing a duality that is a prominent throughout his work.

Jafri, born and raised in rural Holland and of Dutch and Pakistani decent, has always been somewhat of a perfectionist. Realizing that a computer could draw a far straighter line than he ever could, it was only a matter of time before Jafri would start using computers as soon as the technology became more readily available.In 1987 he began making his first illustrations on a small Apple computer using basic vector imaging software. Cumbersome and limited as these programs may seem now, they where perfect for Jafri’s already pictographic style.

Jafri, who doesn’t have any formal art training, studied industrial design engineering at the university of Delft and graduated in 1996. Not surprisingly Jafri’s thesis comprised of a visual language based on perception psychology for over-the-counter medication.

His work has an almost clinically engineered feel to it without becoming

cold or soulless. It is this contrast between unnatural perfection and the fact that his work conveys a strong emotion that makes his work at times haunting but always strangely human.

Jafri has exhibited his art in the form of prints, video installations and animations at the 2002 art biennial in Turin, Italy - the Aluminium Art+New Technologies in Baku, Azerbaijan – Seno Guerriero in Bondeno, Italy and at the Totem Gallery in New York, USA.

Jafri’s style has attracted commercial clients like IBM, Coca Cola, Guinness and various international magazines such as Rolling Stone, The Face and Wired, to name but a few. His work for the Guinness Extra Cold Campaign earned him a 2002 D&AD Silver Award for the most outstanding illustration for advertising campaign.

In 2006 Jafri’s work came full circle when The Fubon Art Foundation in Taiwan commissioned him to make larger than life sculptures of his beloved Bambi. Taking his work from virtual 3D to actual 3D.

Bambi for lunchby M. den Otter

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Solo Shows

2002 HoT, web exhibition, gallery W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands2001 Pool, Totem gallery, New York, USA2001 Mothership, mobile exhibition, New York, USA2000 Consume & Die, Mazzo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands2000 Nova Sega, web exhibition, Bronwyn Keenan gallery, New York, USA

Group Shows

2008 Vernacular Terrain, Songzhuang Art Museum, China2007 Art Buffet, “One more, please”, Hong Kong2007 Vernacular Terrain, QUT, Australia2007 stARTrek, The Next Generation, Bomarzo, Italy2006 Oh my Deer, Mobile Fawn, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C2005 Kernel Panic, temporarycontemporary, London, UK2005 Seno guerriero, Bondeno, Italy2003 MOV. Festival, Sapporo, Japan2003 Aluminium Art+New Technologies, Baku, Azerbaijzan2002 Yourself Autoritratto, Sesto Senso, Bologna, Italy2002 BIG Torino 2002 art biennial, Turin, Italy2001 International Festival of Electronic Language, Image and Sound museum, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Exhibition list

Catalogue

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��Family | Mother, next page, Club Stalker, Haarlem, The Netherlands

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20 Mazzo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2�next page, Night Town, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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2� GunFace, previous page, Mary

2�Divine Devil, next page, Willem, Babe 2000

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32 Alien Propagation

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3� CyberSex

3�next pages, Pool, Totem Gallery, New York, USA | Ladder, Dolphin & Pineapple

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�� Sisters | Angry Girl, Crying Girl

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faiyaz jafri - selected works

Documents

jafris style

art biennial

new york

jafris thesis

new aesthetics

aluminium art new technologies

formal art training

bambi character