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Art:21, Season 5, Transformation – Featuring artists
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman and Paul McCarthy

You're invited to an exclusive screening of Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century. The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) offers the chance to be among the first in the world to view the new season of this Peabody Award-winning documentary series focused exclusively on contemporary art. Art:21 Access '09 is a worldwide event and this is one of the only screenings in the Netherlands. An activity and discussion led by KABK instructors will follow the viewing. Afterwards, you can also check out  STAGE, an exhibition by 3rd year Interactive/Media/Design students. 

WHEN: Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 from 6:00 – 9:00pm
COST: Free with registration and ticket - available here now.
LOCATION: Auditorium, Royal Academy of Art, Prinsessegracht 4, the Hague

LIMITED SEATING! TICKETS REQUIRED FOR ENTRANCE.
REGISTER AND PRINT YOUR FREE TICKETS HERE TODAY.

Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists featured in Transformation inhabit the characters they create and capture the sensibilities of our age. Costumes and masks, makeup and style, dolls and mannequins, stage and cinema—what strategies do we use to refashion identity? Do we seek out excess and extremes in order to see ourselves more clearly? This episode of Art:21 explores such topics and questions.

Yinka Shonibare MBE was born in London and spent his early years in Nigeria. Working in multiple mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography and film, Shonibare draws upon his bicultural upbringing, European literary classics, 18th and 19th century history, and current events to create tableaus of dazzling color and patterns that provoke re-consideration of stereotypical colonial narratives. Art21 filmed Shonibare creating a new drawing “dedicated to the architects of the current economic crisis.” Cindy Sherman, born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, is well known for her photographic series in which she creates a myriad of characters, metamorphosing herself from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron in her photographs and early films. Working alone in her studio, she draws inspiration as much from contemporary tabloids, TV and movies, as from fairy tales and canonical works of art history. Paul McCarthy, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, has created works of video, installation, sculpture and performance throughout his career. His video-taped performances and multimedia installations satirize polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of spectacular imagery. His works, which riff on cultural icons ranging from Hummel figurines to Disney characters, from George Bush to Queen Elizabeth, are often controversial and aim to subvert tradition.

This Art:21 Access '09 Exclusive Screening event is proudly hosted by the Interactive/Media/Design (I/M/D) department of KABK. I/M/D is a young department training students in interactive concept and process design.

Nota bene: Art:21 episodes are in English, and unfortunately there will be no Dutch subtitles.

Contact I/M/D instructor Shayna Schapp with questions: schapp.imd@gmail.com
Visit the Art:21 website for more information about the series
Visit the I/M/D blog or KABK to learn more about this exciting new study program

Yinka Shonibare MBE. How to Blow up Two Heads at Once (Ladies), 2006. Two-life size mannequins,
two guns, Dutch wax printed cotton, shoes, and leather riding boots, Plinth overall 63 x 96 1/2 x 48
inches, each figure 63 x 61 x 48 inches. Collection of Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley
College, Wellesley, MA. Photo by Stephen White, © Yinka Shonibare, MBE, courtesy the artist, James
Cohan Gallery, New York and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.