Originally produced as a documentary film in 2011. Special features: Anatsui at work : 8 short films / Susan Vogel (2011; ca. 27 min.) (Materials from the environment, Pottery tradition and modernity, ...
A powerful portrait of Africas most widely acclaimed contemporary artist El Anatsui It gives an insiders view of the artists practice the ingenious steps and ...
DELA: The Making of El Anatsui is a biographical documentary delving into the life of an extraordinary artist, El Anatsui, the world-renowned sculptor from Ghana. His inner musings find vivid ...
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 ...
From El Anatsui: Art and Life, by Susan Vogel. El Anatsui, Broken Bridge, 2012. Site-specific installation for "La Triennale d'art contemporain," MuséeGalliera, Paris, 2012. Photo by Erik Lasalle, ...
The front of the Haus der Kunst in Munich is covered in printing plates. The wave of monumental curtains, made from 10,000 German and Nigerian plates used in offset printing, is longer than a football ...
It hangs in the air like paper, like drapery, like a metal curtain, transparent yet solid, monumental and unreal. The space around it, the gallery walls, and you yourself become secondary to this vast ...
The artist El Anatsui has returned to his roots in Ghana and is showing in Hong Kong during Art Basel. By Farah Nayeri In a single week, collectors spent $2.2 billion on art at New York’s auction ...