Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Chris Ofili

Massimiliano Gioni

4.4/5 ( ratings)

A major survey including new and celebrated works by Turner Prize–winning artist Chris Ofili. Set to accompany the first major museum show in the United States of contemporary British artist Chris Ofili, this richly illustrated volume surveys two decades of artworks that meld figuration, abstraction, and decoration to yield hybrid juxtapositions of high and low culture. Best known for intricately constructed works featuring beadlike dots of paint, elephant dung, and images culled from popular media, Ofili’s unique lexicon combines African culture, Western art history, and hip-hop music, spanning a wide variety of sources which include the Bible, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and William Blake’s poems. Animated by exotic characters, outlandish landscapes, and folkloric myths, Ofili’s most recent work resonates with references to the paintings of Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin. This compelling new book offers a fresh perspective on the artist’s vital practice, which both celebrates and calls into question the power of images and their ability to address fundamental questions of representation.

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Skira Rizzoli

Release: October 28, 2014

ISBN: 0847844560

ISBN 13: 9780847844562

Chris Ofili

Massimiliano Gioni

4.4/5 ( ratings)

A major survey including new and celebrated works by Turner Prize–winning artist Chris Ofili. Set to accompany the first major museum show in the United States of contemporary British artist Chris Ofili, this richly illustrated volume surveys two decades of artworks that meld figuration, abstraction, and decoration to yield hybrid juxtapositions of high and low culture. Best known for intricately constructed works featuring beadlike dots of paint, elephant dung, and images culled from popular media, Ofili’s unique lexicon combines African culture, Western art history, and hip-hop music, spanning a wide variety of sources which include the Bible, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and William Blake’s poems. Animated by exotic characters, outlandish landscapes, and folkloric myths, Ofili’s most recent work resonates with references to the paintings of Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin. This compelling new book offers a fresh perspective on the artist’s vital practice, which both celebrates and calls into question the power of images and their ability to address fundamental questions of representation.

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Skira Rizzoli

Release: October 28, 2014

ISBN: 0847844560

ISBN 13: 9780847844562

More books from Massimiliano Gioni

Murakami: Ego

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Unmonumental

Show Time: The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Chris Burden: Extreme Measures

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Faith Ringgold, American People

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Il Palazzo Enciclopedico. The Encyclopedic Palace. Guida breve

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest: Published in Association with the New Museum

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Matthew Barney

3.1/5 ( ratings)

The Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Culture, 1900-2015

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Paul Chan: 7 Lights

Jim Shaw: The End Is Here

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work: Published in Association with the New Museum

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?