Courtesy Chris Ofili - Afroco and Victoria Miro Gallery. Photography: installation view, David Lambert.
The Upper Room
Artist: Chris Ofili (born 1968)
Location: Tate
Date: 1999-2002
Materials: canvas with mixed media; walnut veneered plywood; elephant dung supports
Dimensions: 1-12) 183.6 x 122.3cm; 13) 244.2 x 183cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £75,000 (Total: £0)
Vendor: Victoria Miro Gallery
Review number: 5590 (2005)
Provenance:
Victoria Miro Gallery.
Description:
An installation consisting of a specially designed panelled room that Ofili created in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye. Twelve smaller canvases line the two sides with a larger canvas on the end wall. Each canvas depicts a profile of a rhesus macaque monkey in a different colour and named in Spanish on two elephant dung supports. The canvas at the head of the room shows a larger monkey in gold facing forward bringing to mind a beatific Buddha as well as a Christ figure or an alpha male simian. Each canvas is brightly lit as though it were stained glass.
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