Exhibition - Chris Ofili

Last week Tuesday saw the opening of the exhibition show casing the work of Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili. The show brings together a selection of his paintings from the late 1990s, including many featuring his signature use of elephant dung, alongside recent works created in Trinidad.


Ofili has built an international reputation with his works that bridge the sacred and the profane, popular culture and beliefs. His exuberant paintings are renowned for their rich layering and inventive use of media, including balls of elephant dung that punctuate the canvas and support them at their base, as well as glitter, resin, map pins and magazine cut-outs.




Ofili's early works draw on a wide range of influences, from Zimbabwean cave painting to blaxploitation movies, fusing comic book heroes and icons of funk and hip-hop. For the first time, these celebrated paintings are presented alongside current developments in his practice. While adopting a simplified colour palette and pared-down forms, his recent works continue to draw on diverse sources of inspiration, and are full of references to sensual and Biblical themes as well as explore Trinidad’s landscape and mythology.




Definitely one to go and check out.
The exhibition is currently on now at the Tate Britain till the 16th of May 2010
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