Deloitte Ignite Africa Weekend – review

Royal Opera House, LondonYinka Shonibare, curator of this year's Deloitte Ignite weekend at the Royal Opera House, is an artist who works with provocative, deliberately anachronistic juxtapositions. His Diary of a Victorian Dandy inserts an African man (himself) into dramatic, Hogarthian tableaux. He reimagines English period costumes using brightly coloured "Dutch wax" fabrics, and his Trafalgar Square plinth commission applied a similar idea to the sails of Nelson's Ship in a Bottle.So his Afr...

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Deloitte Ignite Africa Weekend – review

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonYinka Shonibare, curator of this year's Deloitte Ignite weekend at the Royal Opera House, is an artist who works with provocative, deliberately a... more info