Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in 'London Calling. British Art Today. From David Hockney to Idris Khan’
‘London Calling. British art today. From David Hockney to Idris Khan’ brings together the work of 20 leading British artists of different generations for whom the city of London has played an important role in their artistic career. Artists featured include David Hockney, Michael Craig-Martin, Phyllida Barlow, Sean Scully, Richard Deacon, Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker, Julian Opie, Grayson Perry, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw, Rachel Howard, Jason Martin, Annie Morris and Idris Khan.
The exhibition reveals the diversity of London’s art scene through a tour of fifty works that chronologically map the artist’s careers, starting with the oldest, David Hockney, to the youngest, Idris Khan. The broad range of works include painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, photography, video, tapestries, installations and digital media, demonstrating the quantity and quality of creative output of one of the undisputed capitals of contemporary art.
