Chris Ofili
Subtitle: Ovid -- Diana & Actaeon
By: [text by Catherine Lampert]
Contributors: Lampert, Catherine; Victoria Miro Gallery
Publisher: Victoria Miro Gallery
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780956856654
Subjects: Illustrations
Other titles: Diana & Actaeon
Description: The Greek myth of Diana and Actaeon can be found in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The tale recounts the fate of a young hunter named Actaeon and his encounter with chaste Diana, goddess of the hunt. The latter is nude and enjoying a bath in a spring with help from her escort of nymphs when the mortal man unwittingly stumbles upon the scene. The nymphs scream in surprise and attempt to cover Diana, who, in a fit of embarrassed fury, splashes water upon Actaeon. He is transformed into a deer with a dappled hide and long antlers, robbed of his ability to speak, and thereafter promptly flees in fear. It is not long, however, before his fellow hunters and his own hounds track him down and kill him, failing to recognize their friend.
Notes: "Chris Ofili, Ovid -- Diana & Actaeon" is published on the occasion of the exhibition "to take and to give" 6 October - 10 November 2012 at Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Includes a checklist of works which include watercolors, oils, drawings, etchings.

Color illustrated endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references.