Chris Ofili /anglais - Softcover

NESBITT JUDITH

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854378708 ISBN 13: 9781854378705

Publisher: TATE, 2010

Synopsis

The British painter Chris Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968 and is one of the most notable painters of his generation. He lives and works in London and Trinidad. Ofili's best-known works are complex and highly decorative canvases, built up from layers of paint combined with other materials including sequins, glitter, map pins and images cut from magazines. Their subject matter often refers to his Nigerian heritage and the wider African American and Afro-Caribbean experience, making reference to sources as diverse as Zimbabwean cave paintings, blaxploitation movies, comic books, funk and hip-hop album covers, pornography and the Bible. A trademark element in his paintings has been his use of varnished elephant dung, sometimes decorated with map pins, either as a support for the paintings or applied directly to the canvas. Ofili's painting "The Holy Virgin Mary" caused controversy when it arrived in Brooklyn in 1999 as part of the exhibition Sensation where it was attacked by then-mayor Rudi Guiliani for being blasphemous. Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 and represented Great Britain in the Venice Biennale of 2005. In recent years he has also created sculpture in bronze and numerous works on paper. The book will illustrate works from throughout Ofili's career, including new works made especially for this exhibition. It will include a new interview with the artist, giving insight into his inspiration and motivation, as well as including essays by leading critics that examine the remarkable achievements of an artist at the forefront of the contemporary art scene worldwide. This title includes contributions from Okwui Enwezor, Ekow Eshun and Attillah Springer.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Nesbitt is Chief Curator at Tate Britain Okwui Enwezor was Director of Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany and is the author of Reading the Contemporary: African Art, from Theory to the Marketplace and Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography. Ekow Eshun is Director of the I.C.A. in London, a broadcast journalist and author of Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa. Attillah Springer is a journalist fo the Trinidad Guardian.

Review:

The first monograph to survey the career of artist Chris Ofili.

About this edition

• Publisher: TATE
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1854378708
• ISBN 13: 9781854378705
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176