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Through life-sized sculptures, artist Yinka Shonibare CBE considers the grasp of colonialism and its lasting effects on modern conceptions of identity. Each faceless figure is in the midst of an action, presented shooting a mass of cherry blossoms from a rifle, lumbering forward with a hefty mesh sack, or balancing a towering stack of cakes. Evocatively posed, the figures are topped with globes and astronaut helmets, which simultaneously gestures toward movement in the form of travel and…

the exhibition of london artist yinka shonibare mbe features works from his twelve year career.

Balance: Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian artist who creates abstract sculptures.

Yinka Shonibare. How Does a Girl Like You Get to Be a Girl Like You?. 1995. Dutch wax print cotton on mannequins. Overall height approximately 68" (172.7 cm). Gift of Agnes Gund. 163.2002. Painting & Sculpture

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“In a lot of my work it’s important that there is this ambiguity, that it doesn’t answer these questions and that there are no definite statements being made. So it’s more a type of poetry; it’s a poetic statement.” Yinka Shonibare’s art is a balance of opposites, combining irreverent, playful fantasy with the shocking brutality...

Anyone who’s ever visited Covent Garden in the last few years may have already seen the sculptural work of Yinka Shonibare without realising it. Planted on the side of The Royal Opera House building is a snow-globe, and inside it slowly twirls a life-size sculpture of a ballerina dressed in full costume, with a globe f

Yinka Shonibare, MBE Cake Man III, 2014 Unique life-size mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, leather, gold, polyester and plaster 315 x 140 (...)