A very special and different experience, the whole exhibition, which I would describe as walking through a kaleidoscope, has drawn so much attention not just on the beauty of itself but also the techniques in which.
'His exuberant paintings are renowned for their rich layering and inventive use of media, including balls of elephant dung that punctuate the canvas and support them at their base, as well as glitter, resin, map pins and magazine cut-outs.'( Tate Britain, about the exhibition.2010)
There were more than 45 painting presented in the rooms, based on different style of paintings or drawings.
one of the biggest rooms that you entered earlier has a large and light space which allow you to access the details of paintings thoroughly, I had noticed the one with magazine cut-outs, in which Ofili created an interesting relationship between images of human forms, elephant dungs and map pin written out a few words.
The image of the painting at the top is called Afrodizzia (2nd version), 1996, lookes like a black boxing star to me, I love how the black star is painted everywhere, beautiful layering.
As you walk past quite a few rooms, soon you would see a long dark dark tunnel on your right, well, there are lights coming through from the bottom actually, but still, it gives you the feel. So you come to the 'chamber of secret', where paintings with same patterns are quietly sit all around the walls and one of my favorite is the one above, detailed gold patterns against the rich colored swirls, with a big dung on the head, wit.
In another room,Chris Ofili has created panels of pencil and watercolor portraits, the rhythm of which filled the room with joy. Some drawings looks like he did it from the front of the person while some from the side, and the exaggeration of man's beads added personality to it. It seems that each character carries a story of his own and you want to hear what they say.
