January 2009

IFS Gallery Director Yvette Garcia attends Yinka Shonibare's “A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child” exhibition/installation at Miami Museum of Art

InterFlight Studio Gallery Director Yvette Garcia attended Yinka Shonibare’s “A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child” exhibition/installation at the Miami Museum of Art in early January.

“This installation is one of the best aviation and flying inspired works of modern art that I have seen. Yinka Shonibare’s colorful symbols about the aspirations of flying, its connotations of freedom and transcendence of culture, gender and religion are genial” Yvette stated. Flight Studio Gallery is researching Shonibare’s complete body of work to extract other pieces and installations related to the subject of flight.

“Yinka’s work related to the subject of flight, air and space intrigues us and certainly will make our clients and collectors well aware of this extraordinary body of work, which, further invigorates our specialized niche as the world’s only aviation and space modern and contemporary art gallery………..”

“The installation Yinka Shonibare has created for MAM, A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child, features an idealized family clothed in his wax-printed, 19th-centruy attire astride human-powered flying machines. The symbolic aspirations of flying, expressive of emancipatory freedom, allude to the monumental efforts by thousands of refugees to reach a city of promise as millions of tourists arrive seeking “fun-and-sun”

Excerpt from Portrait Miami Art Museum, Vol. 3 No.3 October – December 2008.