‘A black artist, Chris Ofili, responds to expectations of otherness by means of parodied primitivism. Using a private variant of the Aboriginal dot technique, he combines this with broad runs of resin plus the lumps of dried elephant dung which are also the subject of performances. The result hovers between parody and a wholehearted embrace of “apeshit” abstraction.’
[LESS]‘A black artist, Chris Ofili, responds to expectations of otherness by means of parodied primitivism. Using a private variant of the Aboriginal dot technique, he combines this with broad runs of resin plus the lumps of dried elephant dung which are also the subject of performances. The result hovers between parody and a wholehearted embrace of “apeshit” abstraction.’
