Yinka Shonibare
Country: Nigeria/ UK
Style: Surrealist Sculpture/Painting
Medium: Mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, feather wings and leather harnessed sack
Fun Fact:
Over the past decade, Shonibare has become well known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. Shonibare’s work explores these issues, alongside those of race and class, through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, more recently, film and performance. Using this wide range of media, Shonibare examines in particular the construction of identity and tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories.
Quote: Even racism is about relativity, do you see what I mean? I guess as an artist that relativity is what I want to highlight and play with. According to Brecht, the audience completes the work of art, and that is a notion I very much subscribe to.
Sculptures:
1. The Swing (After Fragonard)
2. How to Blow-Up Two Heads At Once
3. Boy on a Globe
4. Food Faerie
5. Food Faerie
6. B(w)anker
7. Last Supper (after Leonardo), 2013
8. Last Supper (after Leonardo), 2013
9. Revolution Kid (Fox)
