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Looking Up TM... Yinka Shonibare, Mbe
ISBN: 9788874395644
(FLEXI - E/ F)
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Yinka Shonibare, the well-known contemporary artist, leads readers in discovering the art treasures in the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Yinka Shonibare, an artist of Nigerian origins living in London, where he was born in 1962, likes to unite different worlds in a single space, because he himself is a product of the multiculturalism that now pervades the modern world. His reflections on identity and memory blend Nigerian and British cultures in an entirely new aesthetic idiom. When he began to use wax in the 1990s to model middle-class Victorian figures, which he represented as headless mannequins, he created an artistic trademark that made his work instantly recognizable. Here, models, sculptures, photographs and videos by Shonibare are exhibited in rooms at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco that are rarely open
to the public. Shonibare serves as a guide to his own work, and then leads readers through some of the museum's more specialized collections: Luchino Visconti's "maquettothèque" from the Monte Carlo Opera; Eugène Frey's extraordinary and brightly colored stage sets, a curious collection of transparent paintings that belonged to the Marquis du Périer du Mouriez, and thousands of other artifacts unearthed in the storerooms.
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