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The tears we've carried through the years will change / And man that's just enough / To keep these ghosts around those haunted fields / Like old ties and companions / You and I were just passing through / It's a hundred thousand miles of lonely track / Holding back tomorrow / Someday I'll hop along and ride it home (Mandolin Orange)
see the original photograph on www.hobokollektiv.net
© Potsdamer Str., Berlin, 2016, Florian Fritsch
I was taking iPhone photos from the street of two people inside the Blain Southern gallery in central London amongst the sculptures by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, when these two people stopped in front of me to look in too. I think the result made for a better photo.
ODC Our Daily Challenge: Together
artworks of Edward Hopper, booklet and the 3D-Glasses for Wim Wender's Short Film www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/wim-wenders-edward-hopper): All together made the art experience perfect
By Yinka Shonibare at Yorkshire Sculpture Park - who are presently hosting a wonderful exhibition of the artist's work.
Following information courtesy of Wikipedia:-
Yinka Shonibare was born in London in 1962. His family moved to France when he was three years old. At 16, he returned to Britain to do his A-levels. Shonibare contracted transverse myelitis, an inflammation across the spinal cord, at the age of eighteen, which resulted in a long term physical disability where one side of his body is paralysed. Shonibare studied Fine Art, first at the Byam Shaw School of Art (1984–1989) and then at Goldsmiths, University of London (1989–1991), where he received his MFA. He then worked as an arts development officer for Shape Arts, an organisation which makes arts accessible to disabled people In 1990 his son Kayode Shonibare-Lewis was born, now an indie game developer and 3D artist.
He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial and at leading museums worldwide. He was notably commissioned by Okwui Enwezor at documenta XI in 2002 to create his most recognised work Gallantry and Criminal Conversation that launched him on an international stage.
In 2004, he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for his Double Dutch exhibition at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and for his solo show at the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Of the four nominees, he seemed to be the most popular with the general public that year. A BBC website poll, resulted in 64% of voters stating that his work was their favourite.
Shonibare became an Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths' College in 2003, was awarded an MBE in 2004, and received an Honorary Doctorate (Fine Artist) of the Royal College of Art in 2010. He joined Iniva's Board of trustees in 2009.
The artist is currently represented by BlainSouthern in London.