His 2019 retrospective exhibition in Germany, Triumphant Scale, firmly established him as a leading global voice. It was co-curated by the late Okwui Enwezor, who is famed for bringing African art ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Eleanor Nairne is very particular about how an artwork should be placed. “I always say that you have to ask the work if it’s sat comfortably,” she says.

One could call El Anatsui the godfather of the artistic scene that has erupted in Ghana in the last decade. At 79 years old and now a household name on the world stage, it seems that the sky is the ...

El Anatsui is a contemporary Ghanian sculptor. Internationally celebrated for his transformation of simple materials into elaborate, mutable sculptures, Anatsui uses wood, discarded metal, and clay ...

Amidst its expansive galleries, the Turbine Hall remains one of the focal points to London’s Tate Modern. In the past, Olafur Eliasson and Tania Bruguera are amongst the many artists who’ve utilized ...

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 ...

El Anatsui, “Affirmation” (2014), aluminum bottle caps and copper wire. Signed with the artist’s initials and dated “EL 14 EL 2014” lower right, 122 x 134 1/4 inches Ever since his 1999 discovery of a ...

Recycling may be the eco-friendly option in the United States. But in Africa, where resources are much more scarce, recycling is a way of life and no scrap of material goes to waste. The art of El ...