Art:21 | Yinka Shonibare MBE | Season 5 Preview (October 2009)
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This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode "Transformation" premiering on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
Whether satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists in Transformation—Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, and Yinka Shonibare MBE—inhabit the characters they create and capture the sensibilities of our age.
Known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, Yinka Shonibare MBE also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class.
Learn more about Yinka Shonibare MBE: http://www.art21.org/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe
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Genius! I tell u.
Thugsterchick 2 months ago
Yinka rules. He is fearless.
conewells 1 year ago
@jnetd03 Yes, I believe he suffers from Poliomyelitis.
DanceLikeANitwit 1 year ago
is there something wrong with his neck?
jnetd03 1 year ago
nice work ! created from passion.
tiberiousgraccus 2 years ago
Many people use the MBE title " Chris Hoy" the cyclist a lot of the "LORD this", "LORD that", "Sir this" N Sir that", This Guy earned it, so he can use as he pleases if you don't like it, switch n look elsewhere, u don't have to read it's a free world last time i checked.
Nation010 2 years ago
I think he's an interesting artist, but I do take exception to all this MBE rubbish. Many people in Britain have MBE's (the lowest of the Orders of the British Empire) and they don't habitually put the letters after their names. It's all a bit self-aggrandizing if you ask me.
wikidub 2 years ago
ive seen a few documentary about this guy & seen his artwork in the turner prize.
his work is quite good.
oneu778 2 years ago