Contemporary African artist El Anatsui can probably tell you the drinking statistics for Nsukka, a town in southeast Nigeria. Over the past 15 years, his studio there has grown from a solitary art ...
Ghanaian artist El Anatsui creates monumental assemblage sculptures woven from colorful, shiny objects, creating tactile curtains that seem to breathe on their own. The works sell routinely for more ...
"It's a work made up of three individual sculptures, all of which kind of reveal in some way the kind of entangled histories of Africa, Europe and the Americas through the kind of bottle tops." "This ...
El Anatsui's shimmering art is assembled by assistants who crush, crumple, twist and flatten bottle tops, then thread them together into metal... Nigerian Bottle Cap Sculptor Taps Museum Staff's Inner ...
Fascinated with the artistic and political potential of turning discarded objects and scrap into art, Ghanaian artist El Anatsui (b. 1944) incorporates “materials with a history” into his work, as ...
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