What type of art does El Anatsui do?
Sculpture
Metalworking
El Anatsui/Forms
How does El Anatsui make his art?
El Anatsui uses resources typically discarded such as liquor bottle caps and cassava graters to create sculpture that defies categorisation. His use of these materials reflects his interest in reuse, transformation, and an intrinsic desire to connect to his continent while transcending the limitations of place.
Where does El Anatsui come from?
Anyako, Ghana
El Anatsui/Place of birth
What materials did El Anatsui use in his art?
As well as bottle caps, he has also used found materials that range from old milk tins, railway sleepers, driftwood, iron nails and printing plates. His use of recycled African materials highlights that there are some places in the world where people have to re-use materials out of necessity, rather than as a choice.
What inspires El Anatsui?
El Anatsui: Gawu | Artworks. As Anatsui explains, his new series of work was inspired by “huge piles of detritus from consumption,” such as the mountains of milk tins and bottle tops that have been growing throughout West Africa due to limited recycling technology.
What is Wangechi Mutu art style?
Contemporary art
Wangechi Mutu/Periods
Where did Wangechi Mutu go to school?
Yale School of Art
The Cooper UnionUWC Atlantic CollegeLoreto Convent Msongari
Wangechi Mutu/Education
Wangechi Mutu was born in Nairobi, Kenya and came to the U.S. to study Fine Arts and Anthropology. She obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Cooper Union, NY and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale School of Art in 2000.
Who is El Anatsui and why should you care?
Who is he? El Anatsui is a sculptor from Ghana who currently lives and works in Nigeria. He transforms simple, everyday materials into striking large-scale installations. His work raises questions about ethnic identity by combining traditional African techniques and imagery with abstraction (which arguably is rooted within Western art).
What makes El Anatsui’s art unique?
These intricate works, which can grow to be massive in scale, are luminous and weighty, meticulously fabricated yet malleable. He leaves the installations open and encourages the works to take new forms every time they are installed. El Anatsui’s works can be found amongst some of the most prestigious art collections in the world…
Is Anatsui a painter or sculptor?
Anatsui also refers to himself as both a painter and a sculptor. He essentially ‘paints’ and builds up colour and pattern with the bottle-caps – with his works have been compared to traditional Ghanaian kente cloth, Western mosaics, tapestries and paintings by Gustav Klimt.
What is Anatsui’s seals?
In 1999, Anatsui found a bag of full of metal seals from African liquor bottles. Since then he has received great recognition for a series of wall-mounted installations or assemblages made from seals. He crushes this material into circles or cuts into strips and then sews together with copper wire.