Chris Ofili: New Limited Edition Print & Artist's Book

Victoria Miro is delighted to announce the publication of a new print and artist's book by Chris Ofili to coincide with his exhibition to take and to give.

Over the past two years Chris Ofili has worked on a substantial suite of paintings and works on paper inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses as part of Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and The Royal Opera House. Working alongside choreographers and dancers from The Royal Ballet on sets and costumes for a new ballet Diana & Actaeon has been a revelation to the artist and has sparked a prodigious body of work. The exhibition to take and to give presents a new large scale painting, drawings and works on paper and continues until 21 December 2012.

Chris Ofili's new limited edition print Study for Ovid-Windfall (2012) is taken from a watercolor, charcoal and pastel drawing for his large painting Ovid-Windfall (2011-2012) which was exhibited at the National Gallery earlier this year. As with all the works in this series, Study for Ovid-Windfall is inspired by Ovid's epic poem Metamorphoses. The moonlit image depicts an ethereal male and female presence set in a mythical, watery landscape and is saturated with the intense, rich colors that surround the artist in his Trinidadian home. Ofili has described reading Ovid, as: "being infected by a world of magic, of shape-shifting, where anything was possible and all things were in flux. It was a world driven by sexual desire."

Chris Ofili, Study for Ovid-Windfall, 2012

Giclée on paper, 48.5 x 31.5 cm, 19 x 12 3/8 in

Edition of 175 plus 25 APs 

Limited edition print & complimentary copy of Chris Ofili Ovid - Diana & Actaeon

Price £500 plus VAT (excludes p&p and framing)

Available for collection or delivery November 30, 2012

This sumptuous, large format, 143-page special edition artist's book brings together Ofili's entire Ovidian series and includes works on paper, watercolors and paintings, with a text by Catherine Lampert.

Hard back print run 500

ISBN 978-0-9568566-5-4

RRP £70.00

Available now for special exhibition price of £45.00 

 

Sales inquiries:
Jelena Seng | 44 (0)20 7549 0420 | jelena@victoria-miro.com