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ᕼI, IT’ᔕ GEᖇᗩᒪᗪ ✌🏼May 28, 2025

📍Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan 🇯🇵 (2023)

"Flower Power" (2019) by Yinka Shonibare CBE, captured at the Fukuoka Art Museum.
A striking fusion of beauty and violence: instead of bullets, a rifle releases a cascade of cherry blossoms.
Dressed in vibrant African-inspired fabrics and bearing a globe for a head, the figure reflects on colonial histories, cultural hybridity, and global identity.

[📷: Leica Q]

#Japan #Fukuoka #Art
#YinkaShonibare #FlowerPower #FukuokaArtMuseum #ContemporaryArt #PostcolonialArt #ArtPhotography #CherryBlossoms #GlobalIdentity #ArtAndPolitics #Asia #Leica #ModernArt #photography

Marty de Montereau May 22, 2025

A chaque jour son œuvre,

African Flower Magic (Xerophyta Eglandulosa), 2024, 2024
Yinka Shonibare

Patchwork, applique, quilting, hand dyed silk, linen and cotton and Dutch wax fabric
60 3/5 × 48 4/5 × 2 1/5 in | 154 × 124 × 5.7 cm

#art #artlover #contemporaryart #yinkashonibare #painting #fabric #collection #passion

Headlines Africa Apr 21, 2025

Africa: Yinka Shonibare's Debut African Solo Show Highlights Hybrid Nature of Identity: [RFI] Antananarivo -- Renowned British-Nigerian visual artist Yinka Shonibare is celebrating his first solo exhibition on the African continent, at the age of 62 - an explosion of colour that raises questions of identity and challenges the way we see the post-colonial world. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKH8Zw #YinkaShonibare #AfricanArt #PostColonialIdentity #ContemporaryArt #ArtExhibition

Marty de Montereau Apr 15, 2025

A chaque jour son œuvre,

African Flower Magic (Xerophyta Eglandulosa), 2024, 2024
Yinka Shonibare

Patchwork, applique, quilting, hand dyed silk, linen and cotton and Dutch wax fabric
60 3/5 × 48 4/5 × 2 1/5 in | 154 × 124 × 5.7 cm

#art #artlover #contemporaryart #yinkashonibare #painting #collection #passion

Gary Hall Jun 3, 2024

Was struck by this insight into why Yinka Shonibare set up various artist-led residency programs from his 'Suspended States' exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.

'As an artist who feels like an outsider, I wanted to create spaces for other outsiders like me.'

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/yinka-shonibare-cbe-suspended-states/

There's more about these Guest Projects and Guest Artist Spaces here:

https://www.magazine.artconnect.com/interviews/artist-residencies-as-social-practice

#art #artist #serpentine #yinkashonibare

Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States - Serpentine Galleries

The artist’s first London solo exhibition in over 20 years interrogates the ecological impact of colonialisation, imperialism's legacy on conflict and consequential attempts at peace.

Serpentine Galleries

Pao_1 Apr 14, 2024

Reinvented sculptures, a library, and African textiles.

Suspended States, Serpentine Gallery

8/10

#YinkaShonibare #serpentinegallery #londonexhibitions

Clare Bryden Apr 17, 2023

Playing around with the new artificial intelligence (artificial imagination?) Midjourney Bot to create custom images from simple text prompts, and wondering what the implications for artists will be.

https://clarebryden.co.uk/2x2xai/

#MidJourney #MidJourneyArt #AI #2x2 #2x2xAI
#Trees
#GeorgiaOKeeffe #PabloPicasso #BridgetRiley #RoyLichtenstein #YayoiKusama #YinkaShonibare #GillianAyres #DavidHockney