Artist El Anatsui likes to make art with items that have been thrown away. It’s not recycling that interests him. It’s the idea that an item was touched by another human being. "Because then it comes ...
El Anatsui’s “Womb of Time” (2014) at The School (all images ©El Anatsui, and courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, unless otherwise noted) KINDERHOOK, NY — The School, Jack ...
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, ...
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 Ghanaian-born artist El Anatsui was 63 when the international art world finally woke up to his work, at the 2007 Venice Bienniale. One of his contributions was impossible to miss—a giant ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In truth, Anatsui's work has evolved steadily over time and it can take many forms. Compartmentalising it does not do justice to ...
Rising secondary auction momentum drives collectors to primary galleries. Explore available inventory for El Anatsui, Arno ...
It’s hard to believe that Jack Shainman Gallery’s charming exhibition space inside a refurbished schoolhouse in Kinderhook, New York, is just one year old. This summer, The School celebrated its ...
From what others regarded as rubbish, African artist El Anatsui has created an art collection that blends ordinary objects into a bright, extraordinary whole. Gawu, in the Ewe language of Ghana, means ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s hard to imagine many artists finding Tate Modern’s gargantuan Turbine Hall too small to contain their ...
El Anatsui in the news El Anatsui has been featured in articles for Studio International, Africa Art News and Galerie Magazine. The most recent article is When Objects Look Back written for Art South ...
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