House for Chris Ofili

House for Chris Ofili

He is a contemporary painter. He is a man who born in Manchester, England in 1968.He did study Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art before completing his Masters degree in painting at the Royal College of Art. He is an artist lives and works in London. He is a Briton who carrying Nigerian blood in his body. His skin colour is dark. His painting habitually dominated on the issues of black culture, imagery and sexual stereotyping into humour manner. No doubt, the uniqueness of his works caused his won the Turner Prize in 1998. He has spent years developing his painting that wills not disappointing. Unquestionably to ask, he is Chris Ofili.
Chris Ofili comes to town, a cosmopolitan country - Malaysia. A 70 years old man wants to immigrate and put himself in this tropical climate country which is warm to hot and moist year-round for the rest of his life. He does have a passion to experience the different climate in his own British. The richness of the culture in Malaysia may encourage him to evoke new idea in his paintings later. As he said “'the way I work comes out of experimentation, but it also comes out of a love of painting, a love affair with painting”. Never fail to say that the cost of living in Malaysia is relatively cheaper compared in London. Physically healthy and flexible in mobility allowed him to have the idea to move around.
Ofili still would like to enjoy living and be alive in relaxing peaceful lifestyle. At the moment, he is searching a dream accommodate. The location that he required to place his accommodate tend to headed for a nature environment for his next life. Not in the hectic city and capital of massive sky scrapers with busy highways around. In the same while, he believes nothing beat the victory of standing in the fore line of trends. He is demanding for the designing and quality of spaces in the house. The key concept of his ideal house is likely to be “Paradox and Contradiction” which is designing in contradiction style. In sense of the house may have to split into two designing perspectives which in term to create a contradiction kind of mood. For example, one is rather seal up in order to protect privacy. Where else another side would rather explore to the surroundings with the purpose of appreciate the environments.
The basic requirements and qualities of the house should be well provided. Ofili is tending to live in a two storey house which is appropriate in size. Spaces required are spacious living room, efficient kitchen, two bathroom (upper and down floor), dining room, a small drinking bar and a roof top space for the purpose of relaxing. He would likely to stay the social life in active. The interior consists of open-plan design where is easy to access from one space to another. In additional less partitions between the spaces is required in the way easy to handle and control the whole house. Each part of the house may encourage in multi-functional usage. “I prefer to do something experiments outside the traditional”, he said. Therefore, sometime he may want to paint in somewhere instead to box up himself in the studio.
As his age growth, the careful design in detailing must take into consideration such as ramp for elderly, planning for the staircase and bathroom requirements for aging, no unevenly or slip pavement surface which may cause accident and so on. The way of seek for functional perfection combined with the harmony are the ideal house for him. Great ventilating and provide adequate direct and indirect lighting also needed. He hopes that the house may using wide arrange of materials like concrete, glass and timber. Unique in the finishing of floor system and special openings in the sense of placed them in different kind of manner where the modern random mixing around with tradition style.
Definitely, we are looking forward Chris Ofilis enjoy he next life in Malaysia.