At the High
El Anatsui
Ghanaian, born 1944
Taago, 2006
Aluminum and copper wire
In 1999, Nigeria-based artist El Anatsui began a series of works he calls "meta cloth" sculptures. He joins discarded bits of aluminum from the necks and tops of local liquor bottles to form glittering textiles in the tradition of strip. woven cloth made by West African men for more than a thousand years El Anatsui likes to work with objects that have had a lot of human use be cause, as he says, "a certain charge is imbued, or loaded, into the object."
At the High
El Anatsui
Ghanaian, born 1944
Taago, 2006
Aluminum and copper wire
In 1999, Nigeria-based artist El Anatsui began a series of works he calls "meta cloth" sculptures. He joins discarded bits of aluminum from the necks and tops of local liquor bottles to form glittering textiles in the tradition of strip. woven cloth made by West African men for more than a thousand years El Anatsui likes to work with objects that have had a lot of human use be cause, as he says, "a certain charge is imbued, or loaded, into the object."