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Lot Essay
This work has been requested for exhibition in Mexico City, Cultural Institute of Mexico City, 'Five Continents and a City', Nov. 1998-Feb. 1999.
"Poised between two cultures and enjoying every minute of it , Yinka Shonibare produces a playful and inquisitive art out of the ironies that arise when the postmodern and the postcolonial collide. The result is work such as 'Double Dutch' (1994), comprised of some 50 panels in which stretched canvas has been replaced by brightly coloured African fabric, each piece bearing references to colour-field painting either frontally or on the edges of the frame. In this disalarmingly simple move, he spins the equations of modernist primitivism right off their axis." (K. Mercer, 'Art That is Ethnic in Inverted Commas', Frieze, no.25, Nov.- Dec.1995, p.39).
"Poised between two cultures and enjoying every minute of it , Yinka Shonibare produces a playful and inquisitive art out of the ironies that arise when the postmodern and the postcolonial collide. The result is work such as 'Double Dutch' (1994), comprised of some 50 panels in which stretched canvas has been replaced by brightly coloured African fabric, each piece bearing references to colour-field painting either frontally or on the edges of the frame. In this disalarmingly simple move, he spins the equations of modernist primitivism right off their axis." (K. Mercer, 'Art That is Ethnic in Inverted Commas', Frieze, no.25, Nov.- Dec.1995, p.39).