Opening on September 20, 2007, David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by artist Chris Ofili, who lives and works in Trinidad. This will be Ofili's debut solo exhibition at David Zwirner and the first to unite his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and graphite drawing. A fully illustrated catalogue will be published by Steidl/David Zwirner in conjunction with the exhibition.
Ofili began to garner attention in the mid-1990s with his intricately constructed works, combining bead-like dots of paint, informed in part by cave paintings in Zimbabwe, with collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung. Despite shifts in his material choices, the artist has remained committed to a painting process that relies on deliberate flattening of the picture plane, carefully layered surfaces, and diffuse sources of inspiration. Over the years, both formally and conceptually, Ofili has paid homage and forged dialogue with works by artists ranging from William Hogarth, Philip Guston, Henri Matisse, William Blake, to the Blue Rider group. In this exhibition, Ofili continues, in a variety of media, his active engagement with art history and traditions of representation.
Published to accompany the exhibition at David Zwirner in New York, Devil's Pie documents Chris Ofili's work in sculpture, painting, printmaking, and graphite drawing, and includes texts by art writer and curator Klaus Kertess and writer Cameron Shaw. The publication derives its title from singer-songwriter D'Angelo's 1998 lyric meditation on temptation and retribution. Published by David Zwirner | Steidl
“It’s not every day that you get to see a major artist thinking. You do here.”—Holland Cotter and Laurie Simmons in The New York Times
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