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Article: Yinka Shonibare at Brent Sikkema.(Nigeria)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Born in London, raised in Nigeria and based today in the city of his birth, Yinka Shonibare cuts a striking figure in his large-scale photographic mise-en-scenes, collectively titled "Diary of a Victorian Dandy" (1998). Two of the five photographs in the "Diary" were among the interrelated components of his first U.S. solo exhibition, on view at Brent Sikkema. The elaborately staged gilt-framed photographs, which resemble film stills, were displayed along with a nuclear family of clothed but headless department-store mannequins and a large, gridded wall piece comprising 50 small (12-inch-square) textile panels, each matching the abstract patterns and colors seen in the ...
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