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| | Chris Ofili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ofili was established through exhibitions by Charles Saatchi at his gallery in North London and the travelling exhibition Sensation (1997) becoming recognised as one of the few British artists of African/Caribbean descent to breakthrough as a member of the Young British Artists. | | | He studied art in London, at the Chelsea School of Art from 1988 to 1991 and at the Royal College of Art from 1991 to 1993. | | | Chris Ofili (born 1968) is an English painter noted for works referencing aspects of his African background. |
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| | Chris Ofili postmedia |
| | Chris Ofili was shortlisted for the inventiveness, exuberance, humour and technical richness of his painting, as revealed in his solo exhibition at Southhampton City Art Gallery and in Sensation at the Royal Academy, London. | | | Ofili has no complacency about painting as an art, about the sufficiency of draughtsmanship and colour; his paintings are ideas. | | | Ofili has depicted the gap between what can be represented in contemporary British art, and what is more difficult to acknowledge; the gap between art as public sign, and as private work. |
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| | The Upper Room (paintings) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It was bought by the Tate Gallery in 2005 and caused controversy as Ofili was on the board of Tate trustees at the time of the purchase. | | | The Upper Room is an installation of 13 paintings of rhesus macaque monkeys by British artist Chris Ofili in a specially-designed room. | | | The Stuckists demonstrated outside the Turner Prize on December 6, 2005 against the purchase of The Upper Room with slogans such as "£25,000 Turner Prize, £705,000 Trustee Prize", and were approached by Serota, who became tense, according to Stuckist leader, Thomson. |
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| | BBC News ENTERTAINMENT Chris Ofili profile |
| | Ofili studied Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, before completing a Masters degree in painting at the Royal College of Art. | | | Chris Ofili has said of his painting: "My project is not a p c project... | | | During his stay in Africa, Ofili began to incorporate lumps of elephant dung into his canvases - both as compositional elements and as supports on which to display his paintings. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/225737.stm
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| | Chris Ofili:Cultural Identity |
| | Born in Manchester in 1968, Ofili studied fine art at Chelsea School of Art in London and finished a master's degree in painting at the Royal College of Art in 1993. | | | Inspired partly by the cave paintings of the San tribe of Zimbabwe which he saw in Africa, and partly by Aboriginal art, Ofili patterns intricate contours of bright dots around his collaged or painted images, which are encrusted with glitter and map pins, and coated with shiny resin. | | | Although Ofili grew up in Britain, his parents came from Nigeria and, when he won a travel scholarship to Zimbabwe shortly after graduating, his work began to reflect the impact that the experience had on him. |
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| | The Chronicle - Ofili |
| | "Ofili has proved popular with a black audience which, it is often assumed, feels alienated by contemporary art...(he) is highly respected among artists, and truly deserves the prize," said the arts correspondent for The Independent in an ecstatic review of the Turner awards ceremony. | | | Nevertheless, Chris Ofili's dense and decorative work incorporating elephant dung with swirls of dots, Afro hair styles and black icons won the £20,000 Turner Prize for 1998- making him the first black, and the first artist to win the prize for contemporary British art since 1985. | | | He studied fine art at the Chelsea School of Art and completed a master's degree in painting at the Royal College of Art in 1993. |
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| | An Artist's Gallery of Ideas: Chris Ofili's Watercolors |
| | Ofili's studio in London two years ago to interview him for a catalog essay on the work that was to be shown in Venice. | | | Ofili's first one-man show in New York may surprise museumgoers who have not seen his work since 1999, when a painting of a black Madonna with a clump of elephant dung on one breast caused an uproar. | | | Ofili steadily squirreled the watercolors away in a box in his studio, pulling out this one or that one whenever he was seeking inspiration. |
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| | Chris Ofili's Afro Muses - New York Magazine Art Review |
| | Subsequent articles described Ofili’s painting as “smeared,” “splattered,” or, in one vivid linguistic curlicue, “festooned” with dung—escalating descriptions that, when distorted in game-of-telephone editorials across the country, made it sound as though Ofili had packed a tennis-ball machine full of wet shit and was firing it at his painting from across the room, while cackling. | | | In September 1999, Chris Ofili was painting in his studio in London when his fax machine began to whir. | | | As a young artist, Ofili was known for his playful, if coprophilic, humor. |
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http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymag/culture/art/11877
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts Ofili leads UK in Venice show |
| | Ofili, who made headlines for using elephant dung in his painting of the Virgin Mary, will exhibit new work specially commissioned by the British Council. | | | Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili will be the UK's representative at the world's most important exhibition of contemporary art, which opens in Venice this weekend. | | | Ofili will join artists from around world at the 50th Venice Biennale, which runs from 15 June to 2 November. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2987564.stm
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| | Chris Ofili |
| | Chris Ofili, She, 1997, acrylic, oil, resin, paper collage, glitter, map pins, and elephant dung on canvas, 8 ft. 3 7/8 in. | | | Ofili’s intricately layered works combine bead-like dots of paint, inspired in part by cave paintings in Zimbabwe, with collaged images from popular magazines and such materials as glitter and map pins. | | | Since 1991 Ofili’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at galleries in England, New York, and Berlin, including Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York (1995) and Victoria Miro Gallery, London (1996). |
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http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/ofili.htm
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| | Tate Britain Turner Prize History Artists: Chris Ofili |
| | Chris Ofili says 'the way I work comes out of experimentation, but it also comes out of a love of painting, a love affair with painting.' He mixes a wide range of cultural references, from the Bible to pornographic magazines, from 1970s comics to the work of artists such as William Blake. | | | From 1988 to 1991 he attended Chelsea School of Art, and continued his studies at the Royal College of Art until 1993. | | | He also experiments outside the traditional confines of oil paint, introducing things like elephant dung into his work; he enjoys the tension between the beautiful paint surfaces and the perceived ugliness of the dung. |
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http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/ofili.htm
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| | Chris Ofili Press Release |
| | Ofili was the 1998 recipient of the Turner Prize, making him the second painter to be honored with the award in the history of the competition, and he represented the | | | Known for his aesthetic daring and his passion for painting, Ofili has always seen the watercolors as an important extension of his painting practice. | | | Like some of his paintings and pencil drawings, these watercolors are imagined portraits of treasured archetypes and present Ofili’s acute sensitivity towards portraiture and his exuberant use of color. |
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http://www.studiomuseum.org/pr/cofili_pr.html
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| | DJ SPOOKY that subliminal kid |
| | Coprolites (the technical term for the fossilized feces of animals and humans) in Ofili's work are like nodal points-they hold together the patterns of collaged images around the imaginary characters that populate his canvasses. | | | Paul Miller: Though there are elements of both formalist work and a critique of black culture, a lot of the furor over your style of painting has come from the remix and the use of found objects: the photographs, place, context, beads. | | | This is a peek into the mind of an intense and interesting painter - one whose work "The Virgin Mary" caused such a culture storm in New York that our beloved Mayor Guiliani called for an entire museum show to be cancelled. |
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| | This idea goes out the window, however, in the case of Chris Ofili's recent "Afromuses," a show of 175 small, jewel-like watercolor portraits of fancy-looking black people hung salon style with a few images of exquisitely rendered, colorful flowers and birds sprinkled into the mix. | | | In two of the show's wildest portraits, Ofili pictured his female muses with elaborately latticed hair--in one case in shades of red and orange, the other blues and greens. | | | Most of the time it makes sense to approach an exhibition considering first what an artist intended to accomplish and then to what degree he or she succeeded. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_11_93/ai_n15966817
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| | NonstarvingArtists - Chris Ofili acquisition Opens at Tate Britain |
| | Chris Ofili’s The Upper Room 1999-2002 has been acquired by Tate and will be a highlight of the new BP British Art Displays at Tate Britain. | | | Tate Britain’s Director, Stephen Deuchar, said: ‘Chris Ofili’s Upper Room will be one of the many highlights of the new BP British Art Displays. | | | The Upper Room is a landmark work comprising thirteen paintings on canvas, displayed in a specially designed and fabricated room on which Ofili collaborated with architect David Adjaye, and was first shown at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London. |
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http://www.nonstarvingartists.com/News/ImagedNewsItem.2005-09-02.2014.html
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| | City Pages - Artists of the Year |
| | That Ofili is an important artist who believes that his blackness needs to be expressed in his art is of no importance to politicians like Giuliani, whose need to win at all costs continues to foster minority exclusion while paving the road to prejudicial populism. | | | Chris Ofili was this year's classic example of the art world's victim of circumstance. | | | Ofili's paintings were part of a huge survey of contemporary art from Great Britain called Sensation that was booked at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. |
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http://www.citypages.com/databank/20/994/article8314.asp?page=16
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| | Chris Ofili ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews |
| | Chris Ofili artist portrait, brief biography and art | | | Andy Warhol - Chris Evert 1977 acrylic and silkscre The Art Gallery University of Maryland American | | | Chris Burden - Medusa's Head 1990 plywood, steel, ceme The Museum of Modern Art American |
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| | Elephant Dung Artist Chris Ofili: 1998 Turner Prize for painting with shit |
| | Best known for his paintings using elephant dung, Ofili remarked during a radio interview at the award ceremony that the important thing was to know whether art was 'good art or bad art' and not whether it contained elephant dung. | | | Elephant Dung Artist Chris Ofili: 1998 Turner Prize for painting with shit | | | Elephant Dung Artist Chris Ofili Scoops Up 1998 Turner Prize |
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| | Salon Entertainment "Modern art is a load of bullshit" |
| | The military draughtsman admitted that while he was no fan of Hirst's dead animals, Ofili's dung was "the final straw." Yet Ofili is, in addition to being an imaginative artist, also a humorist and social critic of the art scene. | | | The brouhaha following Ofili's prize shows that his social satire is needed more than ever in the art world today. | | | Not straight out of the elephant, mind you, but chemically treated to avoid putrefaction, odor and flies -- unlike the gruesome work of his colleague, British artist Damien Hirst, whose cross-sectioned cows and other rotting animalia have offended gallery goers for some time now. |
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| | Ofili, is no stranger to outrage at his work. | | | In 1998, "Ray Hutchins, a 66-year-old artist from Staffordshire, protests Chris Ofili's winning of the Turner Prize by placing a large heap of manure on the steps of the Tate Gallery in London along with a sign, reading "Modern Art is a Load of Bullshit"." | | | The painting, part of the now infamous and appropriately named Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, exhibition caused a great deal of controversy for using elephant dung and pornographic images in a picture of the Virgin Mary. |
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| | In this sense, it relates to the medieval aesthetic of ugliness in which visual dissonance and distortion were used in art to urge the viewer to move beyond the superficial material plane to a higher level of spiritual contemplation. | | | , a 1996 collage by Chris Ofili, an award-winning British artist, which incorporates elephant feces. | | | asked Professor of Art Michael Davis, who is teaching a seminar this semester titled The Many Faces of Mary: Representing the Virgin, to put Ofili's piece in context and to comment on the controversy. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/991008/madonna.html
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| | Conceptual Art: Chris Ofili and Jean Kazandjian |
| | Jeanne's drawing after Chris Ofili's sculpture of elephant dung and his own hair. | | | On Chris Ofili's winning the Turner Prize in 1998. | | | I did some quick sketching, and then rushed off to gallery openings on Melrose, where I encountered Jean Kazandjian's work on expressing different space, different time. |
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| | Chris Ofili, The Upper Room scandal |
| | These private benefactors were sourced by Victoria Miro, the gallerist for Ofili, as part of a deal where they bought individual paintings by Ofili from her. | | | In July 2005 the Tate announced a major purchase of Chris Ofili's work The Upper Room - 13 mixed media works on canvas with paint and elephant dung. | | | In October 2004 the Tate said it had insufficient funds to maintain contemporary acquisitions and appealed to artists to donate work. |
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http://www.stuckism.com/Tate/Ofili.html
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| | SMH: Current Exhibitions |
| | From Daniel Bernard Roumain’s classically inspired interpretation of Chris Ofili’s watercolors to DJ Scientific’s remix and reinvention of Harlem sounds, this commissioned project activates the Museum’s lobby and adds a parallel dimension to the art and artists on view. | | | This season, we are pleased to feature Marc Cary, acclaimed jazz pianist, multi-keyboardist, and composer from Washington D.C. and his production team Borough Media. | | | StudioSound invites musicians, producers and musical innovators to create original compositions inspired by the works on view. |
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| | Chris Ofili Online |
| | Original works by Chris Ofili available for purchase at art galleries worldwide | | | The Turner Prize awarded by the Tate Gallery, London | | | • Research art auction values for Chris Ofili (Artprice) |
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| | Chris Ofili said artists should give work to the Tate for nothing... | | | Ofili Vandal Fined.(Dennis Heiner fined for vandalising Chris Ofili painting)(Brief Article) | | | Ofili's Glittering Icons.(work of Chris Ofili at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York) |
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| | Victoria Miro Gallery. (Reviews).(Chris Ofili) - Artforum International - HighBeam Research |
| | Well, you can imagine how I felt on discovering that a large part of Chris Ofili's first show in England since winning the 1999 Turner Prize was, in all but name, the Ofili Chapel. | | | England seems desperate to claim a painting genius these days, if the enraptured reviews for Lucian Freud's retrospective, seemingly all containing the obligatory phrase "greatest living painter," are any indication. | | | The very idea of the Rothko Chapel has always bugged me. Do modern paintings really need to bear the weight of the world, and must their viewers contemplate with religious awe the paintings' failure to do so? |
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| | Ofili's painting and the rest of the 90 or so pieces in "Sensation" are from the collection of Charles Saatchi, the British advertising magnate. | | | Featuring works by young British artists, the exhibition has produced controversy-and long ticket lines-since opening at London's Royal Academy in 1997. | | | That biographical detail was a winking reference to the protesters from the Catholic League and other groups who were outside the museum; to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; and to the painting in the next room, Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary-one outstanding feature of which is a clump of elephant dung. |
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| | The Museum won the case, but Ofili's work again came under attack when a man smuggled paint inside the Brooklyn exhibition and attempted to smear it on the Virgin. | | | A court trial ensued, which incited anti-censorship groups and art advocates to speak out against the mayor's actions. | | | Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary (left) was deemed sacriligious by Giulianni after a number of religious groups protested the work. |
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| | Gettingit.com: The Medium Is The Messiest |
| | It was reported that his recent solo show of five new paintings at a Manhattan gallery briskly sold out at $50,000 each. | | | On my visit to the Sensation exhibit of young British artists at the Brooklyn Museum, a cordoned-off group of Christian protesters were biliously intoning about Jesus over a bullhorn in front of the building, as their 1-800-345-MARY banner flapped in the breeze. | | | It was Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary that was stirring up the shit, so to speak. |
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http://www.gettingit.com/article/284
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| | Chris Ofili: postmedia |
| | He was born in Manchester (1968) and studied at the Royal College of Art. | | | Chris Ofili is one of the four finalist of the |
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| | Chris Ofili Video |
| | Chris Ofili's reflections on the process are complemented by interviews with his collaborator in Venice, architect David Adjaye, and the structural engineer from Arup Associates, who helped realise the complex dome. | | | Combining a cycle of paintings depicting lovers in a Paradise-like garden with a shimmering glass dome, Ofili plunged visitors into disorienting spaces of dense colour and enveloping light. | | | Both this and within reach are about "trying to create an atmosphere for people to feel somehow out of themselves." His aim, the artist explains, is to "do something that is sincerely interesting and can honestly enhance the experience of looking." |
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| | Tate Britain Past Exhibitions Chris Ofili: The Upper Room |
| | Chris Ofili’s The Upper Room consists of thirteen paintings displayed in an environment especially designed by the architect David Adjaye. | | | Click here to see other works in the Collection by Ofili | | | With this work Ofili raises questions about the relationships between civilization and untamed nature, between the religious and the secular. |
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http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/Ofili/default.shtm
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| | CNN.com - arts & style - New York, Brooklyn museum settle funding dispute - March 27, 2000 |
| | Last fall, the city, under the direction of Giuliani, had withheld monthly payments to the museum because of Giuliani's objections to the show's painting, "The Holy Virgin Mary" by British artist Chris Ofili. | | | Maybe, some day, it will come up to the Supreme Court and we'll see what they might say on an issue like that." |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/STYLE/arts/03/27/museum.flap
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| | Find in a Library: Chris Ofili |
| | by Chris Ofili; Godfrey Worsdale; Lisa G Corrin | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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