Monumental Works by El Anatsui

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

Bass Museum of Art

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Continuing its national tour across the United States, the celebrated body of artwork by the internationally renowned artist El Anatsui (Ghana, 1944), is on view at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach before traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Throughout his career, Anatsui has experimented with a variety 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.

The show, entitled “Gravity and Grace,” highlights his most recent projects and features 12 monumental metal wall and floor sculptures that are widely considered to represent the apex of his career. In addition, a series of drawings that illuminate the artist’s process, while wooden wall reliefs reference his extensive work in other materials and demonstrate relationships to the large metal pieces.

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 postmodern modes of expression, Anatsui merges personal, local and global concerns into his work. He confesses that he 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 massive, richly colored and luxuriously textured tapestries. Given liquor’s crucial role in the slave trade, these works reference colonial relationships between Europe, Africa and the United States. This show is on view from April 11 through August 10, 2014.