Yinka Shonibare
Click to EnlargeLot number: 11
Details: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Africa)
1/16 mm non-glare plexi laminated on surface of photograph
207 x 147.3 x 6.4 cm
81.5 x 58 x 2.5 in
This work is artist proof edition No 2 aside from an edition of 5
Provenance: Donated by the Artist and the James Cohan Gallery, New York
Estimate: £20,000 - £30,000*
Artist biography:
Born in London in 1962 to Nigerian parents
Studied at London's Byam Shaw School of Art, now part of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (1984-89), and took an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London in 1991.
Shonibare has gained international attention by exploring issues of race and class through a range of media that includes sculpture, painting, photography, and installation art. Adopting a richly complex, unconventional approach, Shonibare lampoons the concept of achieving status through what might be called cultural authenticity. His works, simultaneously innocent and subversive, address a range of cultural and historical issues and, in the process, blur the boundaries of design, ethnography, and contemporary art.
Amongst his solo exhibitions he showed 'Mobility' at the James Cohan Gallery, New York in 2005. He was one of the artists featured in the Africa Remix exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London in 2005.