El Anatsui has persistently worked to transform the formal and sculptural possibilities of African sculptural idioms and, over fifty years, he has repeatedly revised and reinvented his material and compositional techniques to astonishing effect - from the early smaller wooden reliefs with their incised markings and broken ceramic forms, to the m. 08 March 2019 - 28 July 2019 View website A massive museum survey of El Anatsui's work, curated by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu Haus der Kunst in Munich is dedicating to El Anatsui's work its largest survey exhibition presented to the public until date.
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Mathaf Doha 01.10.19 - 02.02.20 Kunstmuseum Bern 13.03. - 21.06.20 Mit „El Anatsui. Triumphant Scale" zeigt das Haus der Kunst einen umfassenden Überblick über die Arbeit des renommierten Künstlers El Anatsui (*1944 in Anyako, Ghana). Es ist seine erste Überblicksausstellung in Europa, und die bislang umfangreichste Ausstellung seines Werks. It has been a dozen years since Fresh and Fading Memories (2007), a shimmering metallic curtain draped on a Venetian palazzo, brought global recognition to the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, now 75. Since then, his magnificent, large-scale bottle-cap 'tapestries' have become increasingly familiar. April 24, 2019 11:15am El Anatsui, Second Wave, 2019, installation view at Haus der Kunst, Munich. JENS WEBER JENS WEBER T he weight of institutional politics hangs over a retrospective. OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, El Anatsui has invented and perfected a unique medium. With discarded bottle caps he creates grand sculptural works that read as painted textiles. "Triumphant" and monumentally scaled examples from his bottle-cap series form the basis of this exhibition, which is described as his largest-ever survey.
At Haus der Kunst, a Sweeping Retrospective of El Anatsui Frieze
El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale is curated by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okele-Agulu. The exhibition is organised by Haus der Kunst, Munich, in collaboration with Qatar Museums - Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art Doha, Kunstmuseum Bern and Guggenheim Bilbao. It is El Anatsui's first ever solo exhibition in the Middle East. El Anatsui, Triumphant. Munich's Haus der Kunst opens its latest exhibition El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale this March. The exhibition, on view from March 8th, offers a 50-year survey of the acclaimed Ghanaian artist's work. It is the largest exhibition of El Anatsui in history and includes works across all mediums. El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale is one of Tim Marlow's. Profiles How El Anatsui Broke the Seal on Contemporary Art His runaway success began with castaway junk: a bag of bottle caps along the road. Now the Ghanaian sculptor is redefining Africa's. Haus der Kunst presents "El Anatsui. Triumphant Scale", a major survey of the work of the acclaimed artist El Anatsui, perhaps Africa's most prominent living artist. This survey — the largest ever mounted on Anatsui's work — explores the variegated paths of creation the artist has taken to formulate a new approach to sculpture.
El Anatsui. Triumphant Scale Haus der Kunst
Mr. Anatsui, born in Ghana and based in Nigeria, was already an acclaimed artist and teacher in West Africa when he hit, 20 years ago, on a technique that would propel him to create some of the. Der Nigerianer El Anatsui verhängt das Haus der Kunst mit seinen Müllskulpturen und versöhnt es mit seiner jüngsten Vergangenheit. Es ist Okwui Enwezors zuletzt kuratierte Ausstellung.
Caroline Goldstein, July 25, 2019 Ghanaian visual artist El Anatsui. Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images. Share Caroline Goldstein Acting Managing Editor The African artist's sprawling exhibition at Munich's Haus der Kunst is the final show curated by Okwui Enwezor before his death. By Sotheby's Curated by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, with the assistance of Damian Lentini, curator at Haus der Kunst, El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale is the largest survey exhibition of the artist's 50-year career to date. Here, Dr Lentini discusses the importance of the African artist.
El Anatsui’s Monumental New Show Is an Act of Justice The New York Times
March 8, 2019 El Anatsui's survey exhibition "Triumphant Scale" at Haus der Kunst - the first ever in Europe - is the most comprehensive and detailed presentation of his oeuvre thus far. Occupying the entire East Wing, the exhibition comprises key works from five decades of the artist's career. El Anatsui's survey exhibition ‚Triumphant Scale' at Haus der Kunst - the first ever in Europa - is the most comprehensive and detailed presentation of his oeuvre thus far. From March to July 2019, Haus der Kunst will present El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, a major survey of the work of the acclaimed artist El Anatsui.
