Working with caps from liquor bottles, El Anatsui creates densely patterned sculptures that trace a broader narrative around colonial economic exchange and slave trade in Africa. "When the European traders came to Africa for the first time, drinks were exchanged for slaves, who were brought to America to grow more cotton and sugar cane to make more drink and then ship to Europe," says the artist in our "Change" episode. "So, the idea of three continents, and how drink was a link factor between t
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Working with caps from liquor bottles, El Anatsui creates densely patterned sculptures that trace a broader narrative around colonial economic exchange and slave trade in Africa. "When the European traders came to Africa for the first time, drinks were exchanged for slaves, who were brought to America to grow more cotton and sugar cane to make more drink and then ship to Europe," says the artist in our "Change" episode. "So, the idea of three continents, and how drink was a link factor between t
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Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui transforms discarded bottle tops into monumental, shimmering tapestries that merge sculpture and textile. 'After the Red Moon' (originally 'Behind the Red Moon' at Tate Modern) lands at Shanghai’s Museum of Art Pudong (Sept 2024–Oct 2025) in three acts: 'The Waves' (custom-designed for the Huangpu River), 'The World' and a towering 'The Wall'. A Golden Lion La Biennale di Venezia and TIME 100 award-winner, Anatsui’s work probes colonial trade, migration, and material
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Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui transforms discarded bottle tops into monumental, shimmering tapestries that merge sculpture and textile. 'After the Red Moon' (originally 'Behind the Red Moon' at Tate Modern) lands at Shanghai’s Museum of Art Pudong (Sept 2024–Oct 2025) in three acts: 'The Waves' (custom-designed for the Huangpu River), 'The World' and a towering 'The Wall'. A Golden Lion La Biennale di Venezia and TIME 100 award-winner, Anatsui’s work probes colonial trade, migration, and material
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El Anatsui creates gigantic artworks from recycled materials - why the world fell in love with him
El Anatsui creates gigantic artworks from recycled materials - why the world fell in love with him
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El Anatsui Broke Art Norms. At 80, He’s Still Switching It Up
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El Anatsui Broke Art Norms. At 80, He’s Still Switching It Up
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El Anatsui, a celebrated Ghanaian sculptor based in Nigeria, stands as a luminary in African and global contemporary art. Renowned for his innovative use of discarded materials, Anatsui's works, defy categorisation, embodying a unique blend of cultural heritage and artistic vision. The 2023 edition of the Hyundai Commission transforms London's Tate Modern's Turbine Hall into a captivating experience with El Anatsui's spectacular metal hanging sculptures. Titled 'Behind the Red Moon,' the exhibit
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El Anatsui, a celebrated Ghanaian sculptor based in Nigeria, stands as a luminary in African and global contemporary art. Renowned for his innovative use of discarded materials, Anatsui's works, defy categorisation, embodying a unique blend of cultural heritage and artistic vision. The 2023 edition of the Hyundai Commission transforms London's Tate Modern's Turbine Hall into a captivating experience with El Anatsui's spectacular metal hanging sculptures. Titled 'Behind the Red Moon,' the exhibit
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Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon at Tate Modern tells a tale of mass-movement, transformative change, and the inexhaustible potential of human collaboration. “The role of art as I have seen it is to continue renewing the world. I think human beings are attuned to wanting to meet new situations… I have an incentive to continue creating in order to surprise myself and in the hope of surprising other people so they can sustain life.” Anatsui’s insights offer a path through his wo
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Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon at Tate Modern tells a tale of mass-movement, transformative change, and the inexhaustible potential of human collaboration. “The role of art as I have seen it is to continue renewing the world. I think human beings are attuned to wanting to meet new situations… I have an incentive to continue creating in order to surprise myself and in the hope of surprising other people so they can sustain life.” Anatsui’s insights offer a path through his wo
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El Anatsui: The Art of Transformation
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El Anatsui: The Art of Transformation
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Ghanaian artist El Anatsui unveils work at London's Tate Modern | Africanews
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NEW BLOG POST: Where is El Anatsui? This spring we’re creating a new, expanded African art gallery in East Building. The gallery will incorporate African and African Diasporic modern and contemporary art, so that visitors can enjoy African creativity spanning 16 centuries (from 600 to the present day). The Museum's iconic work by El Anatsui, "Lines That Link Humanity," will be a focal point of the new gallery and will return to view when the gallery opens in early summer. Read our blog post to l
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The Trash Sculpture That Shocked the Art World- El Anatsui
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Meet the Artists | El Anatsui
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From the outset, El Anatsui has always insisted on what he calls “the non-fixed form”, the broad range of freedoms to be discovered in his sculpture. The modular nature and flexibility of the panel pieces allow for a range of spatially adaptive reconfigurations to the hanging sequence. Rather than having a fixed and final form, each panel piece can be rearranged at will to offer alternative combinations. Go Back and Pick’ features Anatsui’s most recent wooden panel works, which mine a deep and f
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Diderot.Art on Instagram: "¿Conocías la obra de El Anatsui? Artista nacido en Ghana 🇬🇭 y residente en Nigeria 🇳🇬, trabaja a partir de materiales reciclados, normalmente tapitas metálicas de botellas de licor, para realizar enormes esculturas colgantes que parecen tapices. ♻️ Su obra fue exhibida en los museos más importantes del mundo. Conocé más sobre @elanatsui_art en este nuevo #reel #diderotart #artecontemporaneo #elanatsui"
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El Anatsui often uses his native language of Ewe when naming his work because the words can have a range of meanings when pronounced differently. "Since I'm working with the idea of non-fixity and something indeterminate, I don't want the language to inform," says the artist. "By giving it a context, you limit its ability to stretch." Watch → https://a21.tv/AnatsuiLanguage | Art21
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El Anatsui review: the great Ghanaian sculptor is the talk of London
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Step into the Turbine Hall and let your gaze be lifted upwards - El Anatsui's monumental Behind The Red Moon sculpture invites you to embark on a three-part journey of light, colour and movement. Up close, this large scale installation made of bottle tops tell stories of global connections, the alcohol trade, and African-European histories. From a distance, the clinking metals form landscapes - waves, moon, earth and sky. On display until April 2024. https://bit.ly/46UimIe | Tate
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El Anatsui — Art21
Mar 9, 2017
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Experience El Anatsui’s Hyundai Commission, now open at Tate Modern. One of the most distinctive artists working today, Anatsui transforms found objects into intricate compositions with enormous impact. His ethereal works in the Turbine Hall—his largest to date—appear dynamic and malleable, and tell ever-evolving stories about the history of movement and migration. Uncovering the poetic potential of his everyday materials, Anatsui offers insight into the entangled relationships and geographies t
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‘I use multiple elements to talk about the world: not a world made up of just one culture, but a world shaped by all of us coming together.’ – El Anatsui ⛵ 🌙 ✨ In this film, we travelled to Ghana to meet El Anatsui and see the construction of his monumental installation for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments, Behind the Red Moon engages with the poetic possibilities of materials and the migration of goods and people during the transatlantic slave tr
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El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
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El Anatsui’s Monumental New Show Is an Act of Justice
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"Broken Bridge II" El Anatsui
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Witness the dazzling achievement of El Anatsui's work "Between Earth and Heaven"
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In Conversation: El Anatsui with Susan Vogel
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El Anatsui installing "Between Earth and Heaven"
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On View: ‘El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale’ at Haus der Kunst Museum, Munich
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DELA: The Making of El Anatsui | BSIFF 2024
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El Anatsui Studio
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