Ofili, Chris - Adoration of Captain Shit & the Legend of the Black Stars (1998)

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: The Adoration of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars (1998)
• Artist (if known): Chris Ofili
• Media or other details:  oil, acryllic, polyester resin, paper collage, glitter, map pins & elephant dung on linen
• Publisher / Gallery: Tate Gallery, London / The Dakis Joannou Collection
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Christopher Ofili, known as Chris Ofili (born 10 October 1968), is an English Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad, where he currently resides in Port of Spain. He also lives and works in London and Brooklyn.^[1]

Ofili was born in Manchester to May and Michael Ofili. When he was eleven, his father left the family and moved back to Nigeria.^[2] Ofili was for some years educated at St. Pius X High School for Boys, and then at Xaverian College in Victoria Park, Manchester.^[3] Ofili completed a foundation course in art at Tameside College in Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester^[4] and then studied in London, at the Chelsea School of Art from 1988 to 1991 and at the Royal College of Art from 1991 to 1993. During that time, he was in a relationship with fellow artist Tomma Abts.^[5] In the fall of 1992, he got a one-year exchange scholarship to Universität der Künste Berlin.^[6]

Ofili visited Trinidad for the first time in 2000, when he was invited by an international art trust to attend a painting workshop in Port of Spain.^[7] He permamently moved to Trinidad in 2005. He lives with his wife Roba, former singer with trip-hop band Attica Blues,^[8] whom he married in 2002.^[9] He maintains a studio on Lady Chancellor Road, about ten minutes from downtown Port of Spain, in Trinidad.^[10]

Ofili's early work was heavily influenced by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georg Baselitz, Philip Guston, and George Condo.^[11] Peter Doig was doing graduate work at the Chelsea College of Arts when Ofili was an undergraduate, and they soon became friends.^[12] In 2014, art critic Roberta Smith held that Ofili has much in common with painters like Mickalene Thomas, Kerry James Marshall, Robert Colescott and Ellen Gallagher, and with more distant precedents such as Bob Thompson, Beauford Delaney and William H. Johnson.^[13]

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 break through as a member of the Young British Artists group. Ofili has also had numerous solo shows since the early 1990s, including at the Serpentine Gallery. In 1998, Ofili won the Turner Prize, and in 2003 he was selected to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale of that year, where his work for the British Pavilion was done in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye.

In 1992 he won a scholarship that allowed him to travel to Zimbabwe. Ofili studied cave paintings there, which had some effect on his style.

Between 1995 and 2005, Ofili focused on a series of watercolors, each about 9½ by 6½ inches and produced in a single sitting.^[14] They predominantly feature heads of men and women, as well as some studies of flowers and birds.^[15] Ofili's paintings also make reference to blaxploitation films and gangsta rap, seeking to question racial and sexual stereotypes in a humorous way. In a series of faces that Ofili called Harems, each arrangement consists of one man with as many as four women on each side of him.^[16]

Ofili's work is often built up in layers of paint, resin, glitter, dung (mainly elephant) and other materials to create a collage. Though Ofili's detractors often state that he ""splatters""^[17] elephant dung on his pictures, this is inaccurate: he sometimes applies it directly to the canvas in the form of dried spherical lumps, and sometimes, in the same form, uses it as varnished foot-like supports on which the paintings stand.

Ofili has been founder and prime mover behind the short-lived Freeness Project.^[18] This project involved the coming together of artists, producers and musicians of minority ethnic groups (Asian and African) in an attempt to expose the music that may be unheard in other spaces. Freeness allowed the creativity of unsigned contemporary British ethnic minority artists to be heard. The result of months of tours to 10 cities in the UK resulted in Freeness Volume 1 - a compilation of works that were shown during the tour.

Ofili's work was featured in a museum in the 1995 exhibition Brilliant! New Art from London at the Walker Art Center.^[19] Significant solo exhibitions include the Arts Club of Chicago (2010), Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2006), the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2005), and the Serpentine Gallery, London (1998). In 2010, Tate Britain presented the most extensive exhibition of his work to date.^[20]

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