Yinka Shonibare, MBE
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Feb 26, 2009 (Thursday) to
Aug 30, 2009
(Sunday)
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Time: See Below Commissioned by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Yinka Shonibare creates a new sculptural installation based on themes developed in Jonathan Swiftâ€&#...
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Event details: Yinka Shonibare, MBE
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Time: See Below
Commissioned by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Yinka Shonibare creates a new sculptural installation based on themes developed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The work refers specifically to wars between the empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu focusing on the question of “egg-breaking†which in Swift’s time symbolised the long series of wars between Catholic France and Protestant England.
In addition to this new commission, Yinka Shonibare will exhibit a series of six new large-scale drawings.
Opening Times:
Tue-Thur:10.00am-6.00pm
Fri & Sat 10.00am-5.00pm
Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
CLOSED MONDAYS
For more information: http://www.hughlane.ie/
Commissioned by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Yinka Shonibare creates a new sculptural installation based on themes developed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The work refers specifically to wars between the empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu focusing on the question of “egg-breaking†which in Swift’s time symbolised the long series of wars between Catholic France and Protestant England.
In addition to this new commission, Yinka Shonibare will exhibit a series of six new large-scale drawings.
Opening Times:
Tue-Thur:10.00am-6.00pm
Fri & Sat 10.00am-5.00pm
Sunday 11.00am-5.00pm
CLOSED MONDAYS
For more information: http://www.hughlane.ie/
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