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From: rebecca sutton Category: Art Date: 30 January 2010 Time: 12:51 PM Review: Chris Ofili is one of our finest painters and his new show surveys his work from dung to now. How sick he must get of people calling him the elephant shit guy but actually 90% of the work in the show has it on, or is leant on it, and some of the pictures really don't benefit from it. Fair play to Chris for finally moving on from all the dots and varnish and actually letting a picture be. The last two rooms aren't great but you can see him loosening up (his watercolours are certainly fluid) and making some progress. By far the most effective room is the controversial baboon enclosure smelling like a pine forest, each painting glows with a different colour, and you get a mood on. He sort of pulls all the pattern together here with the repeated monkey motif overcoming the neurotic mark making, and that caps it all. There are a few really good giant paintings in red and green. The video of him swimming in a waterfall and driving his truck is a little bit hard to take, how many more paintings colonists on holiday do we need, though Trinny looks tropical if a little dull. More than anything Ofili has the typical moaning mancunian scepticism, stubborn and combative his paintings could do with a little more of that and less of the decoratif.