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Chris Ofili

Black Shunga,

Description

Maker

  • Two Palms Press
  • Chris Ofili

Title

Black Shunga

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Series of 11 etchings with gravure and aquatint on pigmented paper

Techniques

  • Series of 11 etchings with gravure and aquatint on pigmented paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 47 x 26.7 cm (18 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches)

Identification

Edition

19/20

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2016.40

About

Black Shunga

19/20

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Another detail of the pattern. A thick strip of off-white with pink and black rectangles woven through it is surrounded by wavy horizontal red, blue, green, white, and purple stripes.

Chris Ofili

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Etching on dyed blue paper with an illustration of blooming flowers emerging from the top left corner. Thick text wraps around the edges, leaving a blue space in the middle. The text reads “Two Palms 2008-2015’ and ‘Ofili Black Shunga’.

Chris Ofili

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Dark blue, inkly swirls forming organic coral like shapes overlap one another on a blue dyed paper. The edges of the swirls are darker than their centers.

Chris Ofili

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More dark blue inky marbling, which forms large organic forms as well as thin meandering lines which bloom and blend into the blue dyed paper.

Chris Ofili

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Dark, dense, blue marbling filles the entirety of a blue dyed sheet of paper. Overlaid is an illustration of a flower made of thin white lines blooming from the bottom left corner.

Chris Ofili

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Dark, dense, blue marbling filles the entirety of a blue dyed sheet of paper.

Chris Ofili

Untitled

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Black Shunga with the accession number of 2016.40. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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