This sculpture Reverend on Ice (2005) references a famous painting of a Rev Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch attributed to Sir Henry Raeburn.I took the kids and we went to see the retrospective of Yinka Shonibare MBE at the MCA. We were captivated by the sculptural manequins dressed in the clothing of the nineteenth century with an assortment of wild animals and subverted and explicit references to the art of others -Dorian Gray (2001) Photographs - Oscar Wilde and Fragonard, The Swing (2001).
The video booth interview of him talking about this work was carefree in its exposure of his ideas which he has developed through a number of traditional mediums but colouring them with his political layers of Nigerian post colonialism. It's worth seeing and taking in, read the book in the lounge area for the full impact of his art - this retrospective will tour to Brooklyn Museum N.Y. and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC. in 2009.
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