Yinka Shonibare MBE: Being an Artist

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Art21 first featured artist Yinka Shonibare MBE in 2009
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Learn more about the artist and the original film on PBS.

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Yinka Shonibare MBE is featured in the Art21 episode "Transformation" along with fellow artists Paul McCarthy and Cindy Sherman.

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Utopia
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Utopia is a name for an ideal community or society, that is taken from Of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia, a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempted to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature. "Utopia" is sometimes used pejoratively, in reference to an unrealistic ideal that is impossible to achieve.

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"Climate Shit Drawings"
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See more works by the artist, including the works in progress featured in this video. "Climate Shit Drawing 1," 2008 Four color lithographic print together with silk screen glaze, collaged with fabrics and foils and die cut Somerset radium white satin, 330gsm 13.5 X 20 inches Edition of 200

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"The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"
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Modeled after a Goya etching, Shonibare's photographic series "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" extends the artists interest with ideas developed during the Enlightenment — including the concept of utopia — and the simultaneous colonization of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (America)," 2008 C-print mounted on aluminum Image size: 72 X 49.5 inches Framed: 81.5 x 58 x 2.5 inches Edition of 5

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Yinka Shonibare MBE in "Transformation"
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Channels: Contemporary ArtDrawingYinka Shonibare MBE

Exclusive Episode #084: In his London studio, artist Yinka Shonibare MBE reflects on what it means for him to be an artist, how he views his occupation as a utopian pursuit, and how the lines between the personal and professional aspects of his life are blurred.

Known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, Yinka Shonibare MBE also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class. In multimedia projects that reveal his passion for art history, literature, and philosophy, Shonibare provides a critical tour of Western civilization and its achievements and failures.

Learn more about Yinka Shonibare MBE: http://www.art21.org/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Yinka Shonibare MBE. Thanks: Ann Marie Peña.

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