Shonibare describes his art as a Trojan Horse, “My work comments on power, or the deconstruction of power, and I tend to use notions of excess as a way to represent that power—deconstructing things within that.”.
2002 An iconic London sight, the original 12-foot bronze statue, clad in gold leaf, stands on the dome of the Central Criminal Court, otherwise known as The Old Bailey. In 2011, the artist’s sculpture Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle was a Fourth Plinth commission in London’s Trafalgar Square. He prefers, he has said, not to be prescriptive or didactic, but to leave room for the audience whom, he says, “completes the work”, to draw their own conclusions. The immersive, site-specific installation Justice for All does not disappoint. We are one of only a handful of independent art publications covering Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art. The work is a collection of 6,000 books arrayed on shelves and bound in the artist's signature brightly colored, Dutch wax cloth. The Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour (detail), YINKA SHONIBARE MBE Here behind the velvet rope, the philanthropist is the specimen, turning the table on ethnographic displays commonly included in 19th century world’s fairs where humans were on view in their recreated habitats.
Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery This two-facedness, which Shonibare understands as inherent to identity, is the clue to his long-standing interest in the historical figure of the dandy. Tribeca
Variable dimensions, OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 6-8 PM. The British Library (detail). A web component of the work accessible on iPads in the installation allows visitors to explore the complete list of names on the books, video documentation about immigration and has space to record their own stories on iPads set up in the installation.
Art... A visual artist crossing forms of materials, puppets and installation Teresa Grimaldi works both individually and collaboratively.
And then, of course … there’s batik. In 2013, a major touring survey was mounted at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.
In 2014, Shonibare was the subject of the first contemporary art exhibition at The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. It is on view, along with two short films by Shonibare, Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) and Odile and Odette, at The Arts House from 13 to 30 January 2020. Pomeroy’s Lady Justice. In Fall 2016 Yale Center for British Art mounted a solo show to celebrate their reopening. TEL 212.714.9500 He also portrayed the protagonist of an Oscar Wilde novel in the photographic… 11 black and white resin prints, 1 digital lambda print The British Library was originally co-commissioned by HOUSE 2014 and Brighton Festival for the Old Reference Library at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. The Scramble for Africa, which saw the proliferation of European claims to African territory and which Shonibare, a British artist of Nigerian descent, references in his work, shares parallels with Singapore’s own history of subjugation to a Western colonial power. The artist, like the author, is the outsider assuming the position denied to the 99.9 percent. Yinka Shonibare, The Crowing, 2007 Gender reveals itself as a construct on his faceless figures, nothing more than a costume, as in the more recent sculptures, such as Clementia and Post-Colonial Globe Man , exhibited at Ruins Decorated in the autumn of 2018 at … Please direct further inquiries about Yinka Shonibare MBE to Jane Cohan at jane@jamescohan.com or 212.714.9500. Prejudice at Home: A Parlour, a Library, and a Room will feature three major installations, which together demonstrate Shonibare’s multivalent approach to the theme of “otherness.” The works span two decades of wide-ranging explorations into individual and collective identity as viewed through the lens of history. With Justice for All , Shonibare (working with curator Dr Zehra Jumabhoy) proffers an elaborate collage, mixing historical and cultural signifiers in imagined, ironic and, at times, incongruous conjunctions. James Cohan is pleased to present an exhibition by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, the artist’s sixth at the gallery. Today, these artworks wield an ever greater urgency as a reminder that unchecked prejudice can cripple a society. On the spines of the books are the gold embossed names of individuals, both celebrated and unfamiliar, such as T.S. YINKA SHONIBARE MBE The Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour 1996-1997 Dutch wax printed fabric covered wood, cast iron, brass, marble, mirror, bound printed books, porcelain, glass, framed works on paper, and props 102 x NEW YORK NY 10013 YINKA SHONIBARE MBE The Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour 1996-1997 Dutch wax printed fabric covered wood, cast iron, brass, marble, mirror, bound printed books, porcelain, glass, framed works on paper, and props
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