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Re: the pilgrim, the voyager, the recluse, the hermit

From:     Juston Persson
Category: Art
Date:     21 January 2010
Time:     07:48 AM

Review:

There can be barely a handful of artists who have not been invited to design theatre, dance, opera
or film sets. Set Design is a system as any fool will know, with a back up of technical assistance
from costume, properties, lighting and construction, a system much like an artist working with a
master etcher or a screenprinter. Hockney's stage work received a lot of commendation because of his
attention to multiple perspective and human perception.
Chris Ofili doesn't really fit this idea of the pilgrim, voyager or hermit crab. Gauguin worked in
the midst of colonial upheaval, artistic revolution and personal psychosis, Ofili is an essential
voice in contemporary art, he posits a clearly unique standpoint with strands of post colonial,
British infusions that connect his works to an appreciative regard for  progressive figuration,
mythological structuralism, it has found influential exponents in anthropology, psychoanalysis,
sociology, aesthetics and political theory wether it be dog or some rich fart in Zach Feuer Land.


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