El Anatsui

El Anatsui, Gravity and Grace, 2010, aluminum and copper wire, 174” x 396.” Installation at the Akron Art Museum. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: Andrew McAllister. Courtesy of the Akron Art Museum.

Bass Museum of Art - Miami Beach

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An exhibition by renowned artist El Anatsui (Ghana, 1944) opened this spring in Miami as part of its national tour across the United States.

El Anatsui has experimented throughout his career with a wide array of media, including wood, ceramics and paint. In recent years, he has focused on discarded metal materials, for which his art is best known today.

Drawing on artistic and aesthetic traditions from his birth country of Ghana, his home in Nigeria and various Western art forms and movements, including modernist and postmodernist forms of expression, Anatsui merges personal, local and global concerns into his work. He confesses that his recent works has been inspired by the “huge piles of detritus from consumption,” particularly in his local environment.

In Nigeria, local distilleries produce dozens of different brands of spirits in bottles of various sizes that are recycled after use. The artist collects the discarded aluminum tops, seals and labels and transforms them into luxuriously textured tapestries. Given liquor’s crucial role in the slave trade, these works reference colonial relationships between Europe, Africa and the United States.

The show, entitled “Gravity and Grace,” highlights his most recent projects and features 12 monumental metal wall and floor sculptures. Also on view are a series of drawings that illuminate the artist’s process, as well as wooden wall reliefs. On view through Sept. 21.