Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Blackcap 2015
Etching on Somerset Soft White Velvet 300 gsm
21 x 18 cm
Edition of 50 plus 3 APs
Unframed
The Serpentine is pleased to present Blackcap 2015, a Limited Edition etching by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. This Edition sits parallel to the series of prints titled First Flight which were included in the artist’s solo exhibition Verses After Dusk at the Serpentine Gallery.
Blackcap is a portrait of a male character in profile and, as with a number of works by the artist, is titled after a bird. This etching was created using traditional drawing techniques onto a copper plate. It is a continuation of the artist’s exploration of the motifs and conventions of European art history through a focus on methodologies, structure and composition.
Yiadom-Boakye’s (born 1977, in London) solo exhibitions include Chisenhale Gallery, London (2012) and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2011). Selected group exhibitions include the Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015); The Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2013); the 11th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (2012); and Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York (2012). In 2012 she received the Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Prize and in 2013 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s (b. 1977, London) oil paintings depict figures that appear to exist outside of a specific time and place. There are very few references to background, history, activity and place of the individuals and groups of figures in her paintings. This ambiguity, which also resonates in the enigmatic titles given to each work, invites the viewer to consider the subjects as suggestions rather than explicit narratives or specific portraits. At the heart of Yiadom-Boakye’s work is an exploration of the mechanics of painting, where she reconstructs the meaning that contemporary painting could hold, in all its unexpected beauty and idiosyncratic details. Yiadom-Boakye’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery was a survey of recent work presenting a comprehensive range of painterly techniques, representing the artist’s key series of works. Throughout her work, Yiadom-Boakye has raised timeless questions of identity and representation in art, bringing awareness to such matters and the shortcomings of art history.
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