Artist and filmmaker Muzaffar Ali’s exhibition FARASNAMA: Legend of the Horse celebrates his love for creating works that range from sketches over four decades to a new set of canvases and bronzes on his favorite subject – the horse. Muzaffar’s art is an organic, rare blend of cinema and painting. The former scales the cinematic terrain of films and the latter explores the tactile zone – painting art. Muzaffar Ali is a Sufi in his art as well as his belief in the universal ethos of nature and man. Paintings through the mind of a filmmaker are sensitively curated by art historian and scholar Uma Nair. The exhibition is split into thematic considerations establishing the symbiotic connection of the left and right hemisphere of his mind. It begins with sketches of horses as well as a series of sketches on Rumi, his favourite muse, as a preparation of a feature film, transcending into portraits of Zooni, a legend from Kashmir, which lingers like an unfinished poem in the artist’s mind.
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