source: yinkashonibarembe
Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw College of Art (now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA, graduating as part of the ‘Young British Artists’ generation. He currently lives and works in the East End of London.
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. Mixing Western art history and literature, he asks what constitutes our collective contemporary identity today. Having described himself as a ‘post-colonial’ hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions.
Shonibare was a Turner prize nominee in 2004 and awarded the decoration of Member of the “Most Excellent Order of the British Empire”. He has added this title to his professional name. He was notably commissioned by Okwui Enwezor At Documenta 10 in 2002 to create his most recognised work ‘Gallantry and Criminal Conversation’ that launched him on an international stage. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial and internationally at leading museums worldwide. In September 2008, his major mid-career survey commenced at the MCA Sydney and toured to the Brooklyn Museum, New York in June 2009 and the Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC in October 2009 . In 2010, ‘Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle’ became his first public art commission on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.
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source: soicomvn
Yinka Shonibare MBE là một trong những gương mặt quan trọng nhất của nghệ thuật đương đại hậu thuộc địa. Anh sinh ở London nhưng lên ba đã sang Nigeria sống, sau này quay lại Anh để học mỹ thuật. Những tác phẩm điêu khắc quan trọng của anh là những đàn ông, đàn bà, trẻ con không đầu, gợi lên sự dịch chuyển về mặt thể lý này, cũng như gợi lên thứ ngôn ngữ phổ quát của toàn cầu hóa.
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source: africultures
Yinka Shonibare est né à Londres en 1962. C’est là qu’il vit et travaille. D’origine nigériane, il a vécu en Afrique de 7 à 17 ans. Sa réflexion se heurte à la question de l’identité lorsque, étudiant, on lui suggère d’exprimer davantage ses racines dans son travail. Il s’amuse alors à juxtaposer des images d’objets du British Museum avec des appareils électroménagers et défie le spectateur de le situer dans l’un ou l’autre de ces registres. Après des études à la Byam Shaw School of Art (1984-1989) et au Goldsmiths College (1989-1991), il se sert au début des années 90 du tissu africain pour remplacer la toile (Double Dutch). Sa démarche prend toute sa signification lorsqu’il introduit le tissu “wax” dans l’univers victorien et en habille la bourgeoisie qu’il représente par des mannequins sans tête. Dans Victorian Philanthropists Parlour (1996-1997), il parodie le goût typiquement anglais, qui consiste à reproduire à l’identique des intérieurs d’époque, en couvrant murs et mobilier de tissus à la gloire des footballeurs africains. Ayant reçu récemment une haute distinction britannique, “Member of the British Empire”, il a décidé dorénavant d’adjoindre systématiquement le sigle MBE à son nom. Une façon de souligner les paradoxes de l’Histoire.
Principales expositions personnelles
2006 Flower Time, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Londres, Royaume-Uni ; 2005 Mobility, James Cohan Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis ; 2004 Yinka Shonibare, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas ; 2003 Play with Me, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Londres, Royaume-Uni ; 2002 Yinka Shonibare, Studio Museum, New York, États-Unis.
Principales expositions collectives
2006 Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres, Grande Bretagne 2005 Africa Remix, Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Allemagne ; Hayward Gallery, Londres, Grande Bretagne ; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France ; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japon 2004 African Art, African Voices : Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Philadelphia Museum, Etats-Unis 2003 Looking Both Ways, Museum of African Art, New York, États-Unis; Partage d’exotismes, 5e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France ; 2001 Documenta XI, Kassel, Allemagne; 2000 Continental Shift, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Pays-Bas.
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source: artetv
Yinka Shonibare wurde in London geboren und bi-kulturell erzogen. Er wuchs zwischen England und Nigeria auf, sang als Kind die Sesamstraßen Songs, aber sprach zu Hause Yoruba. Er selbst hat das immer als Privileg empfunden, nicht als Bürde. Und sieht sich daher weder als Britisch oder Nigerianisch, sondern als Weltbürger. Trotzdem oder gerade deshalb wurde er für die renommierteste britische Auszeichnung in der Kunstwelt, den Turner Prize nominiert und von der Queen sogar in den Ritterstand erhoben.