El Anatsui

“ ..Best known for his monumental wall sculptures made from found objects, Ghanaian-born El Anatsui is recognized as one of the most original and compelling artists in the world today... ”

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Royal Ontario Museum

“ ..Hovering between sculpture and painting, the metal constructions defy categorization and have solidified Anatsui’s status as a groundbreaking visual artist of international critical acclaim... ”

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Jack Shainman, The School

“ ..e fact that their works bear witness to a process of intercultural fusion, in which overlapping and mergence become a conceptual stylistic medium, a method, it would be wrong to assume that they merely... ”

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Alte Nationalgalerie

“ ..Anatsui’s metal sculptures—constructed from thousands of Nigerian liquor bottle tops pieced together—transform a simple material into a stunning monumental form... ”

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North Carolina Museum of Art

“ ..By collecting these materials, and laboriously sewing them together with copper wire, Anatsui's transformative process aims to "subvert the stereotype of metal as a stiff, rigid medium and rather showing... ”

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Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp