Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : fly in league with the night
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye : fly in league with the night
Tate Publishing, 2020
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalog of the exhibition held at Tate Britain, London, November 18, 2020-May 9, 2021; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, June 12-September 5, 2021; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, October 16, 2021-February 13, 2022; Mudam Luxembourg-Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, March 26-September 4, 2022
Biography and bibliography: p. 164-170
Selected bibliography: p. 171-177
List of works: p. 178-182
Includes index
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A groundbreaking and essential survey of the art of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, offering an in-depth discussion of the development of the artist and positioning her work within a wider history of portraiture.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night celebrates the work of one of the most significant and acclaimed figurative painters of her generation. Fact and fiction fuse in Yiadom-Boakye's paintings: they appear to be portraits, yet the people she depicts are not real but invented. Created from a composite of found images and her own imagination, her characters seem to exist outside of a specific time or place: they feel at once familiar yet mysterious. This ambiguity resonates again in the enigmatic titles she gives to her artworks. The artist is also a writer of poetry and prose, and for her, the two forms of creativity complement each other: 'The things I can't paint, I write, and the things I can't write, I paint.'
This perceptive and engaging publication provides a comprehensive account of Yiadom-Boakye's practice over the past two decades. With contributions by the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander and curators Andrea Schlieker and Isabella Maidment, alongside new writing by Yiadom-Boakye, Fly In League With The Night reflects the dual aspects of the artist's career as both a painter and a writer and offers an intimate insight into her creative process.
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