10 Reasons to See Chris Ofili’s NYC Retrospective at the New Museum — theculturetrip.com

The art is accessible enough for anyone to immediately enjoy. With everything from Ofili’s lush and tactile colors, his use of glittering media that uplift standard acrylics and watercolors, his works on paper and his bronze and wooden sculptures to the presentation of elephant dung, the aesthetics of the show’s pieces can be easily relished, even by visitors who are not art savvy. Chris Ofili's visually pleasing aesthetics exist harmoniously with deep culture in his pieces. The works on display feature references to Renaissance painting, Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ and Roman Catholic iconography. Ofili intertwines those within his re-imaginings of recurring arts and literature motifs, in a colorful, often Afro-centric fashion. The retrospective gracefully maintains the artist’s hip-hop references alongside antique art historical tropes.

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