After the super busy month of January with a dazzling array of art fairs, art events, art walks, talks, and exhibition openings, February has been a rather quiet month. As we recover from the Chinese New Year festivities and slowly start nudging ourselves back to business, here are some events and happenings that are on our list of must-sees this quarter. Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA), Girl Balancing Knowledge Childhood Memories by Yinka Shonibare The British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s first ever exhibition in Singapore opened on 21 January, 2016. Titled Childhood Memories, the exhibition features sculptures and screen prints and utilises the artist’s childhood memories of Nigeria. It draws on surrealism to explore the artist’s half-remembered childhood tales, as well as the constructed and fictitious memories of childhood, folklore, and tradition. Shonebare’s trademark material of brightly coloured African batik fabric – which was inspired by Indonesian design and mass-produced by the Dutch to be eventually sold to the colonies in West Africa where it became a new sign of African identity and independence in the 1960s – can be seen throughout the exhibition. The exhibition also features two documentaries about Yinka Shonibare life and practice. The exhibition runs through 13 March, [...]
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