// Yinka Shonibare was born in London in 1962 and moved to the Nigerian capital of Lagos when he was just three years old. He studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London in 1984-9 and completed a BA at Goldsmiths College, London in 1991.
Seeing his work gave me a different perspective on the similarities within african and European culture. I find it interesting the way he has chosen to get across his Idea, considering the amount of work taken to create the custom outfits out of Ankara. I personally feel that the presentation of his works allows us to see both cultures in a weird juxtaposed reality, if this wasn’t shown from this perspective we wouldn’t see some of the cultural similarities within both cultures.
btw // we cannot forget that this exhibition is presented in euro centric, society.
June 20th, 2009 at 6:40 PM
OMG! I saw this work before and was trying to find out about the desiger forever!! Thanks for this!
June 21st, 2009 at 9:58 PM
very cool!
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June 24th, 2009 at 8:39 PM
I think i’ve seen this somewhere before…but it’s fresh
June 26th, 2009 at 3:57 AM
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June 27th, 2009 at 7:22 AM
Great art! Never seen…
July 7th, 2009 at 9:37 AM
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July 17th, 2009 at 6:46 PM
An interesting post
May 16th, 2010 at 12:03 PM
[...] In 1775 Austrian Emperor Joseph II dedicated a large piece of land for the use of ”all the people for their amusement and merrymaking”. The park with baroque garden design is called Augarten and I live round the corner, and so it is close physically and close to my heart too. Over the years there have been various attempts to build on parts of the land, which have been for the most part thwarted. But since a few years, the City Authorities in liaison with private investors have been planning to build a large concert hall on one end of the land. Protesters have been squatting on and off for three years now. Political protest has become more playful and performance orientated in the last decade or so, for example in the form of flashmobs. But only in Vienna I guess, protesters would come up with the idea to do it in such style and in baroque style too. Some of the trees were cut down last year to prepare the ground for the building work and the activist staged a funeral procession around Vienna. On May 1st, Labour Day, they arranged for a colourful protest procession in full regalia. You’ve got to love the dresses! Makes me think of the work of artist Yinka Shhonibare. [...]