Al Anatsui was born in Ghana at 1944 , and works as art teacher at Nigeria University since 70’s.
This pieces selection belongs an exhibition called Gravity and Grace, in wich the artist converts found materials into a new type of media between sculpture and painting; combining traditions from his birth country, Ghana, and his home in Nigeria.
His metal wall works, were created with bottle caps from a distillery, and pieced together to form colorful, textured hangings that take on radically new beautifull shapes with each installation.
The monumental wall sculptures can resemble some fabrics made with kente looms.
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