{"title":"Chris Ofili","description":"\u003cp\u003eChris Ofili (born 1968, Manchester) is a British-Trinidadian painter whose work draws on a wide range of sources — African art, blaxploitation cinema, hip-hop culture, religion, and the history of Western painting — combining them in densely layered canvases that are as much about surface and material as they are about image. Ofili studied at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art, and won the Turner Prize in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis paintings are built up through multiple layers of paint, glitter, map pins, collaged magazine cuttings and elephant dung — the last of which became both a signature material and a flashpoint for public controversy. The dung functions simultaneously as support, as symbol and as provocation: it grounds the paintings literally and conceptually, connecting them to ideas of fertility, the sacred and the abject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOfili has lived and worked in Trinidad since 2005, a move that shifted the palette and atmosphere of his work toward the nocturnal and the mythological. Publications produced in connection with his exhibitions — catalogues, artist books, and printed matter — document a practice that has remained consistently generative across four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"package-holiday-new-british-art-ophiuchus-collection-hydra-1997","title":"PACKAGE HOLIDAY: New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection. Hydra Workshop, 1997","description":"\u003cp\u003eHydra, Greece: The Hydra Workshop, 1997. Exhibition catalogue published for \u003cem\u003ePackage Holiday: New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection\u003c\/em\u003e, 26 July–30 September 1997, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra. Organised by Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles. Landscape softcover, staple-bound. Colour photographs and illustrations throughout. 21 × 15 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Pronounced vertical handling crease through the wrappers, with rubbing, scattered surface marks, small abrasions and wear to the edges and corners. Light handling internally; complete and firmly bound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1997 Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles brought fifteen London-based artists to the Hydra Workshop, a former boat-repair space on the island’s harbour. \u003cem\u003ePackage Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e was their first exhibition there together and established the model for the annual programme that followed: artists, curators and galleries temporarily relocated to Hydra, with a publication produced for each presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition assembled Don Brown, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Paul Noble, Chris Ofili, Richard Patterson, Simon Patterson, Georgina Starr, Sam Taylor-Wood, Nicola Tyson and Gillian Wearing. Each artist was represented by a single work from the Ophiuchus Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue borrows the visual language of a holiday brochure: uninterrupted blue covers, panoramic views of Hydra, a row of packed suitcases and bright blue headings. Simon Patterson’s \u003cem\u003eThe Great Bear\u003c\/em\u003e faces Damien Hirst’s \u003cem\u003ePemoline\u003c\/em\u003e; Sam Taylor-Wood’s \u003cem\u003eFive Revolutionary Seconds IX\u003c\/em\u003e extends across the gutter; works by Richard Patterson and Georgina Starr appear as another unlikely pair. A private collection, a London gallery network and a generation of British artists are condensed into one small travel document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover wear now interrupts the continuous blue surface, leaving the catalogue with visible evidence of the movement its title proposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hydra Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986478457170,"sku":"PACKAGEHOLIDAY-HYDRA-CAT-1997","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Brown_Dan._Doig_Peter._Emin_Tracey._Show_catalogue_Package_Holiday_Hydra._1997.jpg?v=1783901135"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/chris-ofili.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}