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Opening Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Fly In League With The Night

When

Within the framework of the exhibition

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Fly In League With The Night

Speech at 18h30

By Bettina Steinbrügge, Director

Entry

Free

Fly In League With The Night is the largest survey to date of the work of British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977, London). The exhibition presents 67 paintings spanning two decades.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye makes figurative paintings drawn from a variety of source material. Her figures inhabit deliberately enigmatic settings that are timeless and often abstract. Working in oil paint on canvas or coarse linen, she has developed a language of painting that is uniquely her own. Fly In League With The Night is the first exhibition to celebrate Yiadom-Boakye’s work in depth.

The exhibition is organised by Tate Britain, in collaboration with the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.

Painting of a group of shirtless boys.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, "Amaranthine", 2018. Courtesy of the Artist, Corvi-Mora, London, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
© Courtesy of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye