Saturday, September 17, 2011

Yinka Shonibare mixed media artist




http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/shonibare-mbe-museum-contemporary-art/1890


Yinka Shonibare MBE is a non-pareil master of the sleight of hand. He has a way of extracting “what everybody knows” – our disregard of the disenfranchised, our vacuous obsessions, our acquiescence, our heedless longings for both temporary fixes and oblivion – and succeeds in personifying its quintessence, foiling us with his sumptuous, visual splendors.

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