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CHRIS OFILI (b. 1968) MONO ROJO signed, titled and dated "CHRIS OFILI CO 2000 `MONO ROJO'" on the...

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CHRIS OFILI (b. 1968) MONO ROJO signed, titled and dated  CHRIS OFILI CO 2000 `MONO ROJO'  on the...
CHRIS OFILI
(b. 1968)
MONO ROJO
signed, titled and dated "CHRIS OFILI CO 2000 `MONO ROJO'" on the reverse; signed, titled and dated again "CHRIS OFILI CO 2000 `MONO ROJO'" on the stretcher
acrylic, collage, glitter,
polyester resin, map pins and elephant dung on canvas
71 5/8 X 38 1/4 IN. (182.6 X 122.6 CM)
executed in 2000 <p>PROVENANCE
Victoria Miro Gallery, LONDON
The dot making process started in 1992 when I visited Zimbabwe and saw these Matopos cave paintings, one wall, 6 feet high and 20 feet long covered in yellow, red and blue dots, made with a sharpened twig and pigments, made by someone who didn't go on the hunt, made when there was music. It's an abstract wall, early abstraction, nothing concrete, translating a state of mind into something visual through a repetitive dot making process.
Chris Ofili quoted in an interview with Kodwo Eshun, CHRIS OFILI, LONDON, 1998