Texte zur Kunst<\/a><\/p>\nIn his multimedia practice, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare deals with (post)colonialism in the context of globalization. He explores concepts of class and race, as well as the construction of cultural identity, focusing on interrelations between Africa and Europe in particular. For TEXTE ZUR KUNST, Shonibare produced a gicl\u00e9e print entitled \u201cModernist Inspirations,\u201d referencing his current interest in the influence of African artifacts on Modernism around the 1920s and, more specifically, his own \u201cModern Magic VII\u201d (2022), a work recently shown in his solo exhibition \u201cRestitution of the Mind and Soul\u201d at Goodman Gallery in Cape Town. The colorful forms on handmade paper and the sculptural application techniques allude to Dutch wax prints, the distinctively patterned cotton fabrics first produced in the Netherlands but often associated with West Africa. The central figure in \u201cModernist Inspirations\u201d has been given a screenprint glaze; its shimmering quality enters into a dialogue with the work\u2019s other forms and surfaces. The glossy section of the piece also lends structure to the coarse fibers of the paper. The edition\u2019s preliminary drawing was created as part of Shonibare\u2019s broader research into the ways in which Western modernist artists appropriated forms from African artifacts. The objects represented here cite items that once formed part of the collections of Pablo Picasso and Tristan Tzara. In this way, \u201cModernist Inspirations\u201d is also an indirect quotation of both those artists\u2019 work, whose concise formal language has been repeatedly reinterpreted in Shonibare\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Size: 39.5 \u00d7 28 cm, image size: 35 \u00d7 25 cm Technique: Gicl\u00e9e print on Somerset Satin hand-deckled paper with partial gloss silk screen glaze, 330 g\/m\u00b2 Edition of 100 … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,90],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neweditions","tag-texte-zur-kunst","tag-yinka-shonibare"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.best-art-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}