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It looks like gold but it's not a surrealist Santa Claus with reindeer nor an abstract Christmas decoration.
El Anatsui, Earth Shedding Its Skin, 2019, Bottle caps and copper wires. BIennial 2019 of Venice, Arsenale, Ghana Pavilion. An artistic ecological message.
Exposition El Anatsui
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La Conciergerie
Paris, France
Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire
Mondialement respecté et reconnu, a fortiori depuis qu’il a reçu le Lion d’Or de la Biennale de Venise en 2015 pour l’intégralité de son œuvre, El Anatsui est connu pour ses sculptures en bois et ses assemblages complexes de matériaux recyclés. À la fin des années 1970, il privilégie l’utilisation des tessons de verre et de débris de céramiques. Deux décennies plus tard, il réalise ses premières pièces de “tissus” à partir de “matériaux pauvres”.
El Anatsui puise son inspiration dans les traditions africaines de recyclage et de détournement d’objets manufacturés usagés. Il a su ériger la récupération en pivot du processus créatif. Ses œuvres interrogent les échanges mondiaux du commerce, la destruction, la transformation des matériaux, symboles des événements traversés par le continent africain.
C’est une colline extraordinaire faite de rondins de bois, de matériaux de récupération, de plaques d’impression diverses et de couleurs chatoyantes, que le grand artiste ghanéen a conçue au cœur du Parc Historique.
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Vue partielle de "Xixe", oeuvre de EL ANATSUI exposée à Chaumont-sur-Loire en 2024
Gold and silver
Partial view of "Xixe", work by EL ANATSUI exhibited in Chaumont-sur-Loire in 2024
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The title of this sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui is "Man's Cloth" (1998-2001) seen in the British Museum, London. The object is made from recycled metal foil, the kind you would find on top of gin and other bottles. The pattern thus created, however, mimics traditional man's dress on the West African coast (that of the Adinkrah e.g.). To me, this is a playful - and an artistic - way to express the joy of being alive, here and now. Edited in Fujifilm's raw converter and refined in Luminar.
Le château de Chaumont-sur-Loire se trouve dans le Val de Loire, sur les bords de la Loire, entre Amboise et Blois, en France. Il fait l’objet de classements au titre des monuments historiques par la liste de 1840, ainsi qu'en 1937 et 19552.
Il accueille chaque année, dans ses jardins, le Festival International des Jardins
San Francisco, California, USA
Detail of "Hovor II," 2004,
A very large wall hanging of aluminum bottle caps bound together with copper wire,
by Ghanian artist El Anatsui.
Das Erdtuch von El Anatsui
Marien-Himmelfahrt von Peter Paul Rubens
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Aluminium bottle caps, copper wire
(H x W)510 × 530 cm
About the workInterwoven world history: these works by the Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, made out of aluminium caps from bottles of alcohol, draw attention to the interconnections between Africa, Europe and America. Beginning in the sixteenth century, those in power on each continent engaged in the slave trade. African traders were often paid in alcohol. By reusing thousands of bottle caps, Anatsui links this historical retrospection with issues of modern society: the piece raises questions about consumption, trade and the environment.
AccessionAcquisition 2006
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TAKPEKPE (Conference) 2006
El Anatsui
Ghanian, Born 1944
Metal tops of liquor bottles and evaporated milk cans, aluminium and copper wire ...
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington State ,,,
We are sailing, we are sailing
Home again, 'cross the sea
We are sailing stormy waters
To be near you to be free.
El Anatsui's gigantic installation "Behind the Red Moon" currently hung in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London. Rod Stewart's lyrics are rather different from the way Anatsui (Ghana) explains his trip-partite structures (made entirely of millions of hammered metal bottle tops stitched together with copper wire). However, I found that poetry goes better with this piece of art than explanation. Fuji X-E3.
Leica M8, Elmar (coll.) 50/2.8. I found that people did not really know what to say when confronted with El Anatsui's gigantic structures in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London. This moment of hesitation is important. It signals that our everyday rationality has hit a roadblock. There is something that is incongruent to our cognition, something incommensurable, something that does not fit, but does have a real presence. Art does this kind of thing to us.
We are sailing, we are sailing
Home again, 'cross the sea
We are sailing stormy waters
To be near you to be free.
El Anatsui's gigantic installation "Behind the Red Moon" currently hung in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London. Rod Stewart's lyrics are rather different from the way Anatsui (Ghana) explains his trip-partite structures (made entirely of millions of hammered metal bottle tops stitched together with copper wire). However, I found that poetry goes better with this piece of art than explanation. Fuji X-E3.
We are sailing, we are sailing
Home again, 'cross the sea
We are sailing stormy waters
To be near you to be free.
El Anatsui's gigantic installation "Behind the Red Moon" currently hung in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London. Rod Stewart's lyrics are rather different from the way Anatsui (Ghana) explains his trip-partite structures (made entirely of millions of hammered metal bottle tops stitched together with copper wire). However, I found that poetry goes better with this piece of art than explanation.
Excerpt from rbg.ca:
AG+BA (AR) by El Anatsui
b. 1944, Ghana
Lives and works in Nigeria
El Anatsui’s iconic bottle-cap installations are created from thousands of aluminum bottle-tops wired together with copper, thereby catalyzing the transformation of familiar, mundane objects into startlingly poetic works of art. The frugality of the materials stands in contrast to the shimmering and grandiose effect they accumulate through the artistic process and manner of installation as large-scale hanging sculptures.
For this exhibition, a two-part work has been translated to AR, inserting light movement into the flexible materials. Installed in the open space of the gardens, the work accumulates gentle movement, as if soft breezes blowing through the gardens play over its surfaces. Like many of Anatsui’s pieces, the work addresses both artistic and political issues, and resonates with notions that confound art and craft, high and low, center and periphery.
Anatsui’s works are held in major international collections, including The British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; de Young Museum, San Francisco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Tate Modern, London; and many others. Large-scale external installations include: Ozone Layer and Yam Mound at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2010); Broken Bridge I at Musée Galliera, Paris (2012); Broken Bridge II on the High Line, New York (2012/13); and TSIATSIA – Searching for Connection (2013), his largest bottle-cap work to date. This shimmering tapestry of light embellished the façade of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, during its 245th Summer Exhibition.
Berlin-Mitte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Friedrichwerdersche Kirche und Hamburger Bahnhof, kommt mit und lasst die Bilder des 2. Tages auf euch einwirken! Es waren zwei anstrengende Tage. Beschreibungen sind hier glaube ich überflüssig!
„Mit EL ANATSUI: TRIUMPHANT SCALE zeigt das Kunstmuseum Bern das grossartige Schaffen dieses Künstlers aus Ghana. Er ist kein Einzeltäter: mit unzähligen Helfern bearbeitet er tausende von gebrauchten Flaschenverschlüssen, Teile von Blechdosen und anderes Wegwerfgut, schneidet sie auf, walzt, faltet, drückt, locht und verbindet sie mit Kupferdrähten, bis daraus Kunstwerke von monumentaler Schwerelosigkeit entstehen“.
Part of an exhibition of the artist’s work at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2019. The large work is made of small metal pieces of aluminum that have been tied together with wire.
191/365 pictures in 2019
34 - A work of art, for 52 in 2019
These are flattened strips of aluminum taken from the necks of discarded liquor bottles. Strung together they form this textile-like sculpture that recalls the woven and pieced designs of "kente", a traditional type of African Asante or Ewe royal cloth
Born in Ghana, El Anatsui currently lives in Nigeria. His work reflects his awareness of both the international contemporary art market and what he terms "classical" African art.
Photographed on display at the De Young Fine Arts Museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
Berlin-Mitte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Friedrichwerdersche Kirche und Hamburger Bahnhof, kommt mit und lasst die Bilder des 2. Tages auf euch einwirken! Es waren zwei anstrengende Tage. Beschreibungen sind hier glaube ich überflüssig!
Large installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London.
"Behind The Red Moon"
Artist: El Anatsui
Excerpt from excal.on.ca:
Anatsui’s tapestries are “so different from everything,” said Francisco Alvarez, managing director for the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the ROM. “[They’re] a luxurious beauty.”
The pieces are made from alcohol bottle caps that are flattened, twisted, scrunched or folded, and then sewn together using copper wire. These tapestries are one of the primary reasons for Anatsui’s growing fame – they are beautiful, unique and meaningful.
The bottle tops are also significant for their history: alcohol was brought to Africa by European settlers and used to negotiate with the native people living there. Using bottle caps in his artwork today allows Anatsui to honour and remember his nation’s history while creating new identities for his countrymen.
One of the most fascinating pieces in the exhibit is Straying Continents, a bottle cap tapestry commissioned by the ROM specifically for the exhibition, now on display at the very beginning of the museum’s Africa section. Straying Continents is dazzling to look at. The tapestry looks like a flattened map of the world: the land masses are made of closely sewn bottle caps while the oceans are made of folded caps netted together. The display is meant to change over time due to gravity and age.
Straying Continents will remain in the museum after “When I Last Wrote to You of Africa,” and is worth seeing even without the context of El Anatsui’s independent exhibit.
This large tapestry-like piece made from recycled Aluminum packaging material and copper wire is by Ghana born artist El Anatsui. It recalls the traditional kente cloth of Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.
The Broad, Los Angeles; October 2022
„Mit EL ANATSUI: TRIUMPHANT SCALE zeigt das Kunstmuseum Bern das grossartige Schaffen dieses Künstlers aus Ghana. Er ist kein Einzeltäter: mit unzähligen Helfern bearbeitet er tausende von gebrauchten Flaschenverschlüssen, Teile von Blechdosen und anderes Wegwerfgut, schneidet sie auf, walzt, faltet, drückt, locht und verbindet sie mit Kupferdrähten, bis daraus Kunstwerke von monumentaler Schwerelosigkeit entstehen“.
One of the many very cool pieces by El Anatsui at the exhibit in the San Diego Museum of Contemporary art. He uses recycled material for all his pieces. San Diego, California, USA
The Venus of the Rags sculptures by artist Michelangelo Pistoletto come in many versions but are all based on one idea. The artist purchased a plastic Venus sculpture in 1967 and placed it in his studio facing a pile of rags that he had used to clean his silk-screen mirror works. The contrast between the sculpture of the goddess of beauty and love and the soiled rags became a hallmark work in the Arte Povera movement and Pistoletto one of the movement's leading artists.
Brooklyn Museum "Solid Gold" exhibit
This is the only version in gold.
The other work is artist El Anatsui, born in Ghana and
active in Nigeria. He is known for his "bottle top" art using thousands of aluminum pieces from alcohol recycling centers and stitched together with copper wire. While the material used for the works is stiff the resulting artwork is flexible and drapes beautifully when hung on a wall for display
This individual pieces of this large tapestry-like piece are made from recycled Aluminum packaging material held together by copper wire.
The artist is El Anatsui, who was Ghana born and based in Nigeria. The work recalls the traditional kente cloth of Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.
The Broad, Los Angeles; October 2022