Tuesday, April 21, 2015

El Anatsui - An African Abstraction

El Anatsui: Ozone Layer

El Anatsui: Red Block

El Anatsui: Gravity and Grace

El Anatsui: Amemo (Mask of Humankind) (detail)


February 8–August 18, 2013 at the Brooklyn Musseum

The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction.

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