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About The Book
Since moving to Trinidad in 2005, Ofili has continued to engage with the surrounding environment and culture, which has found its way into many of his colorful paintings. In these deceivingly simple black-and-white photographs, he captures a wide cross section of Trinidad as he highlights the encounter between natural and man-made settings, and the different aesthetic possibilities each brings out in the other. In focusing on a ubiquitous and seemingly unremarkable piece of equipment, Ofili is able to comment on our interactions with space and each other, using a near-universal subject as the fence slices the sky, melds into a tree, frames a basketball game, or reveals an opening.
In a new essay by the critically acclaimed author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World (2016), Joshua Jelly-Schapiro charts the history of chain-link fences; focusing on a selection of Ofili’s photographs, he then begins to explore what this imagery tells us about Trinidad in particular and the Caribbean as a whole. These two essays—one visual, the other literary—open onto a whole new set of interpretive possibilities for this groundbreaking artist.
Product Details
- Publisher: David Zwirner Books (September 11, 2018)
- Length: 96 pages
- ISBN13: 9781941701829
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Raves and Reviews
“This wunderkind painter’s richly detailed works, many of which use unconventional materials, from glitter to elephant dung, feel vital and alive.”
– The Editors, New York Magazine
“Chris Ofili is still fearless after all these years. The visual range here is narrow, austere, systemized. Yet the gestalt of 'Paradise Lost' exudes a metaphysical geography of philosophy and otherness.”
– Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine
“For me 'Paradise Lost' is Ofili creating his own conceptual, eroticized, blacker, and less glowingly Buddhist Rothko Chapel.”
– Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine
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