Criminal Ornamentation

The criminal decoration is a Hayward Touring / Arts Council Collection group exhibition curated by Yinka Shonibare MBE.

Famous in the UK - Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE is known for the use of eye-catching colors and patterns among culturally thoughtful works. Shonibare has long been interested in exploring art history and post colonial themes.

This publication provides unique insight into the world view of Shonibare. The artist chose Adolf Loos' influential anti-decorative lecture, decoration and crime and inspired us from the collection of art committees and other major collections. From sculpture and painting to fashion and design, these pieces tell the story of things that refuse to be restricted.

By introducing an essay on Shonibare, a writer and curator Michelle Kuo essay on textiles, crafts, nature, and patterns, this publication provides a bold new perspective on how we see art To do.

Exhibition artists include Boyle family, Susan Darje, Alexander McQueen, Bridget Riley and Bed Will Williams.

Attenborough Arts Tour of Leicester (from September 21 to December 16, 2018), RAMM of Exeter (from January 19 to March 16, 2019), Public Side Gallery at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (April 2019 From 5th to 16th June); Southampton Art Museum (from 27th June to 28th September 2019)

Austrian modernist architect Adolf Loos wrote his view on decoration without an apology. In his essay "Decoration and Crime" he argues that decorative damage to the country's economy is called waste of human resources and waste of wealth; decoration is a by-product of non-advanced culture is. Throughout this article, if he can read between his foreign aversion colonialist and a racist smear, he will try to explain his position in art I can do it. Health modern producers, however, decorations are forgotten or are pathological phenomena. "

When contemporary architects publicly abandoned the decoration of the building, they unconsciously designed a decorative building. They changed the whole building to ducks in terms of space promotion and the connection between symbols and decoration. They replaced innocent inexpensive practices of decorative decoration in traditional sheds, very ironic and expensive procedures, and structural distortion to promote ducks. Decorative structure, but we should attach Pugin's warning:

The tribal community of Gujarat traditionally uses colored bead accessories. These accessories are inexpensive alternative to silver, they show their own local aesthetics, so it is a preferred means of personal decoration. Red, green, white, black, yellow, blue beads called moti are usually purchased at Chota Udaipur. Nylon thread-based bead processing is usually done by tribal women during leisure time. Since they have multiple colors, please choose wool thread for the rest of the decoration