Come and explore NEW WORKS by Yinka Shonibare at London's Serpentine Gallery - I was STUNNED!

[@petrinablair1999]

Thanks for highlighting this exhibition. We were in London last weekend and absolutely blown away with these works. It was so moving particularly the War Room where i could look up my country on the computers provided. Such beautiful works with very deep and poignant meanings. Wow .

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Thank you so much for watching and apologies for the delay in replying but I am really glad that you enjoyed this. Incredibly powerful works. It is possible to spend ages in the war room, isn't it? An important work.

[@mattgriffiths7755]

Good Review. Yinka has his unique schtick and I am happy to see it when he can come up with works like Decolonised Structures and African Bird Magic.

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Very much so. Loved this! Thank you, as always, for watching.

[@Lps.amy49]

Thanks for this video. I visited this exhibition yesterday, I was not very familiar with his work, and I did not have time so I could not read the catalog. Came home to find this video, which is brilliant. I loved this show. Being a newcomer artist in London, this exhibition was really very inspiring, and I am really glad I know now more about the context of all works.

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Thank you so much for watching. I am really pleased you loved the show - it is great, isn't it. I hope you are finding London a good place to create.

[@frogtastic1000]

Very Interesting

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Thank you - a good show!

[@user-uo7jx6gx2t]

WOW. these are beautiful pieces. I love this artist but have only ever seen his work on video. his comment about retention of statues but placement in museums to recall the history. many statues of British colonial figures are being chopped off at the feet here in OZ, with confusion about whether they should be repaired, or removed. This would be a great exhibition for Australia to encourage public debate (generated by art) - something we don't indulge in a lot down under.

[@artgalleryexplorer]

I would love it to come to Australia. Hopefully it will generate more discussion here as well. The downing of the Coslton statue in Bristol in COVID was such a seminal moment for that at Shonibare explores that.

[@jameswelsh7789]

I’ll put it bluntly: Art (install physical Art) isn’t Stage or film, it isn’t documentary or journalism, it’s not school and when it is treating to complex subjects like politics or scientific revelations it should look and signify and move the viewer as this Artist does, an intriguing, beautiful object. I learned at the knee of Kosuth, Kruger and Holtzer. I stood outside Wall Street with Occupy. This is the way to do political / Activist Art, less than this or “more” than this goes nowhere.

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Interesting thoughts, thank you. I did find these beautiful though as well as thought provoking. I think some of the most interesting and successful of the works that have engaged with colonialism, in this wave of art over the last 40 years or so, contain elements of beauty. Also, the downing of the Colston Statue in Bristol, I felt, which was an activist moment, directly spoke to Shonibare.

[@carolinerobertson8098]

Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill aside, I would've recognise most of them. How many of the public would, I wonder? Awfully pretty but isn't the point they're dead, let whatever it is they're supposed to have done/not done die with them, leave the statues in place and let us have some more made - of peoples who are relevant today? We can start making history anew!

[@artgalleryexplorer]

Thank you for watching. My question is - do we need statues at all? All human beings are surely flawed in some way? Why do we deify them? Some of the people Shonibare shrinks and covers in Dutch Wax cloth committed what we today would call atrocity crimes (crimes against humanity, war crimes etc) and would be tried at the ICC if they lived today - I would be so much happier with them in a museum with context as opposed to in our public spaces! Others are more complicated.

[@carolinerobertson8098]

I have no idea what you are talking about