Future Exhibitions
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa
Roloff Beny Gallery, Level 4
October 2, 2010 to January 2, 2011
The Institute for Contemporary Culture hosts the world premiere of El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa, the first career retrospective of the internationally renowned artist El Anatsui.
Best known for monumental wall sculptures made from discarded bottle tops, Ghanaian-born El Anatsui, is recognized as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation. Throughout his long career, Anatsui has transformed often-overlooked materials such as discarded metal and discarded wood into important visual statements that embody global, local and personal histories, as well as traditional Ghanaian beliefs.
The exhibition, which spans four decades, includes over 60 pieces of Anatsui’s work, with drawings, paintings, wood, ceramics and metal sculptures, as well as a major new work created for the retrospective.
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa is organized by the Museum for African Art, New York, and has been supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
El Anatsui. Three Continents, 2009.
Aluminum and copper wire. 98 x 191 in.
Photo courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery
El Anatsui. Akua’s Surviving Children, 1996.
Wood and metal dimensions variable.
Photo courtesy: The October Gallery
El Anatsui. Omen, 1978.
Ceramic 15½ x 21 x 16½ in.
Photo: Museum for African Art/ Kelechi Amadi-Obi
