David Adjaye

Chris Ofili

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Chris Ofili began to garner attention in the mid-1990s with his intricately constructed works that combined beadlike dots of paint (informed in part by cave paintings in Zimbabwe) with collaged images from the popular media and varnished and adorned elephant dung --that same dung paired with a Madonna that so incensed former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1999 and launched a dramatic series of protests and public outcries. Despite his shifts in material choices, Ofili has remained committed to a painting process that relies on deliberate flattening of the picture plane, carefully layered surfaces, and diffuse sources of inspiration that make for a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Golden, Thelma

ISBN: 978-0-8478-3215-6
EAN: 9780847832156
Produktnummer: 22803744
Verlag: Rizzoli International Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H32.0 cm x B26.5 cm x D2.7 cm 2'334 g
Abbildungen: 200 colour and black and white illustrations
Gewicht: 2334
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Chris Ofili was born in 1968 in Manchester, England and now lives and works in Trinidad. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art, London and the Royal College of Art, London. Past one-person exhibitions include The Blue Rider Extended Remix, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (2006); The Upper Room, Tate Britain, London, England (2005); Afro Muses, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2005); and Within Reach, British Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2003). Devil's Pie, the artist's debut solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York in 2007 was the first to unite Ofili's work in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and graphite drawing.David Adjaye is an award-winning architect and founder of Adjaye/Associates. Thelma Golden is chief curator at the Sudio Museum in Harlem, New York. Kwui Enwezor is dean of academic affairs and senior vice president at the San Francisco Art Institiute.