In the Tate Britain running from the 27th January to the 16th May 2010 Chris ofilli held his exhibition, bringing together over 45 paintings the exhibition was somewhat interesting. On visiting the exhibition one of the First things i noticed was the elephant poo attached to each of the larger paintings, it seemed to be some sort of dedication but what i'm not sure. Ofili won the turners prize in 1998 and it is clear why, he is one of the most intensely colourful yet insightful artists i've seen, he manages to en capture pure detail from his culture, beliefs, religion and homeland, he uses rich thick layering of colours as well as glitter, cut-outs pins and magazines. His work when looked up close looks crazily stuck together and sometimes erotic but when taking a step-back appears to merge to form a larger picture and it works. You can tell his influences stretch from far and wide from his beliefs to Nigerian cartoons, one of my favourite pieces was Afrodizza second version (1996)
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