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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.