In 2015, he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the Venice Biennale’s highest honor. For example, the bottle caps come from hard liquors introduced by Europeans, as currency – and thus a means of subjugation – during the era of transatlantic slavery and colonialisation. Occupying the entire East Wing, the exhibition comprises key works from five decades of the artist's career. View El Anatsui’s 179 artworks on artnet. Solo exhibitions with the gallery include Ghana had only recently gained independence, and as a result, the art curriculum was still very much centered on Western practices. Exhibition, El Anatsui was born in Anyako in 1944 – the youngest of 32 children on his father’s side – and studied at Kumasi’s University of Science and Technology.

After graduating, Anatsui obtained a teaching job while studying West African ideographs. We further acknowledge the significant support of an anonymous donor; and the generous contributions of Gesellschaft der Freunde Haus der Kunst e.V., Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, Kavita Chellaram, Reni Folawiyo, Bolaji Balogun, and Yvonne Fasinro.

Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. His work can interrogate the history of colonialism and draw connections between consumption, waste, and the environment, but at the core is his unique formal language that distinguishes his practice. Leben. Each piece is an intricately thought out and put together masterpiece, offering an beautifully aesthetic work of art as well as a piece that is cut through with meaning. Triumphant Scale“ zeigt das Haus der Kunst einen umfassenden Überblick über die Arbeit des renommierten Künstlers El Anatsui (*1944 in Anyako, Ghana). El Anatsui generates meaning out of his material and technical process. El Anatsui (* 1944) ist ein ghanaischer Bildhauer, der den Großteil seiner Karriere in Nigeria verbracht hat. The catalogue is published by Prestel.

Mit „El Anatsui. In 2019 Haus der Kunst presented a wide-ranging traveling survey of his work titled Anatsui has been featured in many international exhibitions, including the Carnegie International (2018), the Marrakech Biennale (2016), and The Contemporary 2 at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, (2015), and the Venice Biennale in both (1990) and (2007), among others.

El Anatsui is an internationally acclaimed artist who transforms simple materials into complex assemblages that create distinctive visual impact. Anatsui wurde in Anyako in der Volta Region geboren und studierte am College of … Er ist einer der renommiertesten Bildhauer der internationalen Kunstszene und unterrichtet seit 1975 Bildhauerei an der Universität von Nigeria in Nsukka. With "El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale", Haus der Kunst shows the most comprehensive and detailed presentation of El Anatsui's oeuvre thus far. Curated by Okwui Enwezor, former director of Haus der Kunst, and Chika Okeke-Agulu, Professor at the department of Archaeology and Art History at the University of Princeton, Assistant Damian Lentini, Curator at Haus der Kunst 

“I work more like a sculptor and a painter put together,” he said in an interview with Chika Okeke-Agulu that accompanied a solo exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in 2011. The exhibition also presents the lesser known wood sculptures and wall reliefs from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, ceramic sculptures from the 1970s, as well as drawings, prints, and sketchbooks. Anatsui is well-known for large scale sculpture composed of thousands of folded and crumpled pieces of metal sourced from local alcohol recycling stations and bound together with copper wire. El Anatsui wurde 1944 in Anyanko, Ghana geboren und studierte Bildhauerei an der Kunstfakultät der Universität für Wissenschaft und Technologie in Kumasi.

El Anatsui has persistently worked to transform the formal and sculptural possibilities of African sculptural idioms and, over fifty years, he has repeatedly revised and reinvented his material and compositional techniques to astonishing effect – from the early smaller wooden reliefs with their incised markings and broken ceramic forms, to the monumental outdoor cement sculptures, and, more recently, the vast and spectacular metal wall and floor works, which blur the boundaries between sculpture, painting and assemblage. The process of cutting, flattening, squeezing, twisting, folding and joining of thousands of these bottle caps, together with copper wire that weave together fabricated sections into a single work, speaks to the making of human communities out of connected individual subjectivities.The exhibition is made possible thanks to major funding by the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.

He uses resources typically discarded such as liquor bottle caps, printing plates and cassava graters to create sculpture that defies categorization.

El Anatsui is a contemporary Ghanian sculptor.

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