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Judges put dung artist at top of pile The Scotsman; December 2, 1998; David Montgomery; 550 words... AS THE annual awarding of the Turner Prize invariably prompts controversy... specially painted for the current Turner Prize exhibition at the Tate Gallery... and suffering of the family of Stephen Lawrence.
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Elephant dung artist tipped to win 20,000 pound Turner Prize The Scotsman; October 28, 1998; JACKIE BURDON; 568 words... the murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, and which includes a lump... went on display at the Turner Prize exhibition yesterday.
Elephant Dung Artist Ofili Wins Turner Prize The Birmingham Post (England); December 2, 1998; 611 words... this year's pounds 20,000 Turner Prize.
Elephant dung artist tipped to win 20,000 pound Turner Prize The Scotsman; October 28, 1998; JACKIE BURDON; 568 words... went on display at the Turner Prize exhibition yesterday... to win the GBP 20,000 Turner Prize for the young British artist... Crowhurst in 1968.
Elephant Dung Artist Ofili Wins Turner Prize The Birmingham Post (England); December 2, 1998; 611 words... pounds 20,000 Turner Prize.
Elephant Dung Artist Ofili Wins Turner Prize The Birmingham Post (England); December 2, 1998; 611 words Chris Ofili, notorious for incorporating... year's pounds 20,000 Turner Prize.
Elephant dung artist Ofili wins Turner Prize.
Elephant dung artist tipped to win 20,000 pound Turner Prize The Scotsman; October 28, 1998; JACKIE BURDON; 568 words... went on display at the Turner Prize exhibition yesterday... win the GBP 20,000 Turner Prize for the young British... Dean, 32, studied in Falmouth and the sea plays a...
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This is a simple case of being controversial — much like some artists who can't draw put dung in sacred statues to stand out...
Originating at the New Museum in New York last fall, the exhibition features «The Holy Virgin Mary,» Ofili's most recognized and most controversial dung painting from the 1990s, which sold at Christie's London on June 30 for $ 4.5 million, a record for the artist.
«Afronirvana,» 2002 (oil, acrylic, polyester resin, aluminum foil, glitter, map pins, and elephant dung on canvas) by Chris Ofili Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, New York / London, and Victoria Miro, London.
After all the years of videos, rumpled beds and elephant dung, a truly shocking contemporary artist emerged last night as the bookie's favourite to win the # 20,000 Turner Prize - Michael Raedecker, who creates delicately beautiful, eerie landscapes in the traditional materials of paint and embroidery on canvas.
This work by British artist Chris Ofili, in which a black Virgin Mary is depicted adorned with real elephant dung, was at the centre of a major controversy in 1999 when New York's then - mayor Rudy Giuliani tried to cut funding to the Brooklyn Museum for exhibiting the painting.
Bangalore - based artist Sheela Gowda creates expansive installations using local craft techniques and everyday materials such as incense and cow dung.
The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili has been a bit chary, let's say, of showing in New York City ever since a certain Mayor Rudolf Giuliani threatened to defund the Brooklyn Museum for showing his absolutely gorgeous The Holy Virgin Mary — a 1996 painting of a black Madonna with a bared breast made from dried elephant dung, surrounding by putti made from female genitalia cut from porn magazines — as part of the 1999 stateside leg of Saatchi Gallery's «Sensation» show.
Australian collector David Walsh commissioned the sale of Ofili's «The Holy Virgin Mary» along with several other works by various artists (including «The Naked Soul of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars,» another dung painting by Ofili) in order to raise funds for new acquisitions and the expansion of his Museum of Old and New Art.
For an artist known for hawking snowballs, and who'd previously turned lumps of elephant dung into sculpture, years before Chris Ofili caused controversy by using them to prop up his paintings, you might wonder what could possibly have so shocked a high - end gallery.
Along with some other artists, like Jimmie Durham or David Medalla, Hammons still makes my perception of the world a beautiful critical collapse: The sound of a metal bucket or a basket - ball hitting a wall, the flavor of fried chicken, the texture of my own hair, the smell of dung, can be something appealing, seductive, but also prime matter for a political statement.
It makes sense for Higgs, who once championed the Young British Artists in all their piss and elephant dung, before deriding those who blindly follow wealthy collectors, hoarders, and art advisors and before coming to America as director of White Columns.
Ofili's flag first flew above Tate Britain in 2010 when the gallery mounted a major show of the artist whose paintings now cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and who is still best known for his controversial use of elephant dung.
It was exhibited at the Brooklyn museum as part of the Sensation group show of young British artists» work and depicted a black madonna and child, embellished with cuttings from pornographic magazines and pieces of varnished elephant dung.
Giuliani owes his grandiose pose to Soviet Realism, but even in a Polaroid over the elephant dung that he so hated in the Young British Artists.
What could escape reinterpretation, just as outcries against elephant dung on a Madonna reverse the artist's point?
Next month the Turner prizewinning artist Grayson Perry will talk about Hogarth's A Rake's Progress for Frieze Masters, while Chris Ofili, famed for his work with elephant dung, will discuss Titian.
Artist innovative and pioneering, surprised us by creating an entirely personal artistic style, with richly paintings combining rippling dots of paint, drifts of glitter, collaged images and elephant dung — varnished, often studded with map pins and applied to the picture surface as well as supporting the canvas — a combination of physical elevation and symbolic link to the earth.
You might see Ofili's use of elephant dung and pornographic collage as purposefully blasphemous, indiscriminately desecrating Christianity's holiest icon with profane materials, but that would be a misreading of the artist's thoughtful, highly personal, and — ironically — highly spiritual oeuvre.
Dung, however, is hardly the defining feature of Ofili's work (not to mention the fact that the artist hasn't used the stuff in his work since 2003).
The dung balls soon found their way into Ofili's painting, a development that the artist considered exciting enough to take out a quarter - page ad in art magazine Frieze that simply consisted of the words «ELEPHANT SHIT.»
Boasting dazzling colours, utopian visions and — of course — a dollop of elephant dung, the artist Chris Ofili's latest exhibition Night and Day is open at the New Museum in New York.
As for Ofili's paintings made from elephant dung, which won in 1998, some critics were certain the artist was courting cheap publicity.
And then, a little off to the side, almost unassumingly so, there was a glitzily colourful painting of a black Virgin Mary, leaning against a wall, and supported on little globs of elephant dung, by a young artist called Chris Ofili.
Dating from his heyday as part of the Young British Artists, and created only a year after the notorious «Sensation» show at the Brooklyn Museum, where a painting of the Virgin Mary, also including elephant dung, inspired a morality crusade by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the work is tagged at $ 2 million.
To a lesser extent, the term «controversy» also relates to Ofili's notoriety as an artist known, or remembered, for regularly (and some might say «irreverently») fixing dried orbs of elephant dung to canvases, as well as positioning them as spherical stands upon which works are placed to transform them from two - dimensional artworks into more complex three - dimensional mixed - media sculptures (adding to its potentially troublesome qualities, The Holy Virgin Mary utilized both techniques).
In 1999, after Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani threatened to cut off city funding to the Brooklyn Museum because of an exhibition featuring a painting by the British artist Chris Ofili that depicted a Virgin Mary figure and incorporated collaged pornographic elements and clumps of dried elephant dung, Mr. Trump joined in the criticism.
The Stuckists take what media opportunities they can to attack the work of Britain's top contemporary artists, especially Damien Hirst, famous for displaying an embalmed sheep and opening a trendy restaurant in London; Chris Ofili, whose black Madonna adorned with elephant dung enraged New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1999 when it showed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; and Tracey Emin, who once exhibited her own used bed in a gallery.
He made headlines and divided the city when he made a foe of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with the display of Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary (1996), a painting featuring elephant dung and pornographic imagery, in the 1999 exhibition «Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection.»
Chris Ofili's painting of a black Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung that caught the ire of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sold for 2.9 million pounds at Christie's, an auction record for the British artist.
Miro is one of the grandes dames of the BritArt scene, having opened her Cork Street gallery in 1985 and given the public its first sightings of the elephant dung - adorned paintings of Chris Ofili and the mutant mannequins of the Chapman Brothers; she's also showcased artists from further afield, including the priapic oils of New York - based Cecily Brown and the huge photoscapes of Germany's Andreas Gursky.
Studded with Ofili's infamous balls of dung, The Naked Soul of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars is illustrative of the artist's unique pictorial language which integrates the urban black experience with his own African heritage.
Renowned for the integration of elephant dung into his painting, Ofili first started applying dung to the canvas in 1992 after a trip to Zimbabwe to take part in the Pachipamwe International Artists» Workshop, supported by travel funds from the British Council.
Chris Ofili, a member of the Young British Artists, is known for his exploration of the black experience and his use of elephant dung in paintings.
In 1998, an illustrator protested at Chris Offili's use of elephant dung in his work by dumping dung on the steps of the Tate Britain while in 2001 the artist Jacqueline Crofton hit the headlines when she threw eggs at the walls of the room containing an installation by Martin Creed that consisted of an empty room in which the lighting periodically came on and went off.
Long interested in the mysteries of the night sky and the natural world, internationally - recognized artist Diana Thater is fascinated by the dung beetle and its relationship to our galaxy.
-- Despite protests by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani about «Holy Virgin Mary,» a work in which British artist Chris Ofili employed elephant dung, the «Sensation» show opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art on Thursday.
Occupation: Contemporary artist who created a stink when he won the Turner Prize in 1998 for a work created partly out of elephant dung.
Tate Britain will put together the first mid-career survey of work by artist Chris Ofili, who first sprang to widespread fame with his paintings embellished with elephant dung in Sensation, the 1997 exhibition of Young British Artists.
His paintings are marked by a broad range of influences and borrowings - from Yoruba and Australian Aboriginal dot paintings from 1970s black funk style from the collaged collisions and drooling resin layerings of German artist Sigmar Polke from the elephants at London, Whipsnade and Berlin zoos whose dung is Ofili's calling - card.
This artist who leapt to fame and won a Turner prize at the height of the sensationalist British art craze of the 1990s has since shunned the public eye to explore the landscapes of Trinidad in personal, idiosyncratic paintings that wilfully refute his elephant dung - and - superheroes era.
Undeterred, the judges last night named Chris Ofili - an artist notorious for incorporating lumps of elephant dung in his work - as the winner of this year's GBP 20,000 prize.
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