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Friday, November 13, 2009

Lady wit meh flower - Chris Ofilli

A set of flowers used for his Feinin

As part of Chris Offili's feinin I wanted to use artificial flowers which I did not want to buy. I also purchased the red tights and top to give a carnival festive feel. I approached a variety shop in Port of Spain and the woman at the counter was kind enough to give me a bag full of damaged plastic flowers which I promised to return to her as a Christmas wreath in gratitude. I made a flower arrangement instead and presented them to her the following day. The clothes items where returned as they were too tight.

More demanding was trying to photograph Ofilli's posture as I observed him and his wife dance at Peter Doig's home some months ago.

Photo studies of Chris Ofilli's feinin. It should be noted that these stills were long exposures compounded by a camera that is notorious for miss-focusing. A large format digial camera may have worked to my benefit.

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Richard Bolai lives and works from Trinidad, West Indies. He is a bookbinder,Graphic designer and the author of thebookmann, which from 2004, has written and photographed independently aspects of Trinidad and Tobago's art culture.

In 2008, he began a series of self studies called Feinin which incorporated digital superpositions of artists who have left a mark in art history by using the internet as the core of reference. He also produced parodies relating to anthropological studies of Trinidad and Tobago, for example, folklore or observations of the society via class and stereotypes

The work then expanded by actually creating dimensional replicas, capturing a map over the subjects to explore the underling subconscious in the form of art. This aided the ability to analyze art by producing art parodies to understand the meaning behind it. No money was spent or assistance in producing these compositions from common items found in his home, a chair, a mirror, or old tyre.

The artists lists includes, da Vinci's Last Supper, Koons's dog, Hirst's spin paintings, Andres Serrano's piss Christ to Monet to name a few, over one hundred artists' have been completed, producing one in every 24 hour cycle.

It should be noted that with the feinin studies, you should see that actual work that is been parodied via the link. It makes no sense otherwise.

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