The Chris Ofili Exhibition at the Tate Britain was a weird but could be classified as a wonderful exhibition to some people.

This exhibition was made up of a vast collection of his huge painting mostly made up of elephant dung. What I did find clever about his work was how it was presented. As the pieces of work where so vast and looked very heavy they where not placed up on the wall up where leaning against the wall, then to make sure the work was not damages on the floor both corners of the painting had little stilts, these where made of varnished elephant dung which I thought was very clever.

As you could probably tell from the first line that I am not the biggest fan of Ofili’s work as I just found it all so offensive. Going around the exhibition I was looking at all the names he has called the pieces and they ranged from ‘Popcorn Tits’ to ‘The Adoration of Captain Shit and the Legend of the black Stars’ which to me are very brash names.

However I did end up buying a lot of postcards from the shop after as if you look at his work from a distance it look beautiful, his use of color is incredible and I love that aspect of it, but when you go up close especially to his piece ‘Pimpin’ ain’t easy’ he has taken very pornographic images of black women with their legs wide open which to me I find very distrustful.

As I have found out Art and Fashion had no boundaries. When I got home from the exhibition I did some Google search on Chris Ofili and I found these amazing shoes made in inspiration from his artwork. He names them ‘anything goes when it comes to (s)hoes’ which is playing with the title of one of his paintings (above) ‘Pimpin; ain’t easy’.

Below I have got a link of anothet blog which found images of how they made the shoes so high reaching 10 inches!!!

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/9502/elephant-dung-shoes-by-insa.html