Exhibition

Ikon Icons: Yinka Shonibare

10 Sep 2014 – 9 Nov 2014

Regular hours

Wednesday
11:00 – 17:00
Thursday
11:00 – 17:00
Friday
11:00 – 17:00
Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Sunday
11:00 – 17:00

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Ikon Icons sees the return to Ikon of five key British artists from an exhibition programme that has extended over five decades — including John Salt, Ian Emes, Cornelia Parker, Yinka Shonibare and Julian Opie. A presentation of work by each takes place, consecutively, throughout 2014 in Ikon's Tower Room. The series is a major component of Ikon 50, the programme of exhibition and events celebrating Ikon's 50th anniversary. Yinka Shonibare's exhibition at Ikon in 1999 was seminal. We now show Five Under Garments and Much More (1995), an early suspended installation that prefigures the artist's mannequin works. Each piece mimics the structured corsetry of period noble dress but the dramatically enlarged proportions and exuberant textiles suggest a provocative de-robing of social and class constructions.

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