58. Biennale di Venezia. Padiglione Ghana. El Anatsui, Yaw Berko, 2019. Courtesy of the artist


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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.


Ghana Reveals its Artists for 2022 Venice Biennale

El Anatsui ( / ˌɛl ˌænətˈsuːi /; born 4 February 1944) [1] [2] [3] is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria. He has drawn particular international attention for his " bottle-top installations".


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El Anatsui has been selected to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the fifty-sixth Venice Biennale. The biennial's board, chaired by Paolo Baratta, chose Anatsui with the recommendation of the festival's curator Okwui Enwezor.


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El Anatsui Honored With Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Biennale The Ghanaian artist takes the international exhibition's highest honor. Sarah Cascone, April 23, 2015 Axel Vervoordt, El Anatsui, and Boris Vervoordt Courtesy Axel Vervoordt. Article topics Contemporary Sarah Cascone Senior Writer


The Recipient of the Venice Biennale Golden Lion El Anatsui is Opening an Exhibition at October

El Anatsui, (born February 4, 1944, Anyako, Ghana), Ghanaian sculptor who is best known for his large-scale metal tapestries constructed from bottle caps and copper wire. These pieces are a culmination of a career spent experimenting with different local materials and varied forms of handicraft.


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In 2015, Anatsui was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the Venice Biennale's highest honour. Anatsui's solo exhibition Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, was organized by the Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio (2012), and travelled to the Brooklyn Museum, New York and the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2013); then.


Ghana's BuzzedAbout Venice Biennale Pavilion Is a Clear First Step in the Country's Bid to

Artist interview interview El Anatsui: the sculptor on making art from waste, and waking up the artist in all of us The Ghanaian artist, whose new work is about to be unveiled in Tate Modern's.


Amazing tin tapestry by El Anatsui Venice biennale, Sculpture art, Art design

in the arsenale venue at the venice art biennale 2007, two great walls of what appear to be fabric or tapestry hang between columns. in fact, el-anatsui 's works are made from bottle.


Meet the African artists at the 2019 Venice Biennale Art Exhibition

apr 23, 2015 ghanaian artist el anatsui has been awarded winner of the golden lion for lifetime achievement of the 56th international art exhibition of the biennale di venezia.


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Venice Biennale honours Africa’s ‘bottletop artist’ El Anatsui ArteVersa

Venice Biennale 2019 Pavilions in the Arsenale Pavilion of Ghana: El Anatsui Ghana Freedom Artists: Felicia Abban, John Akomfrah, El Anatsui, Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Ibrahim Mahama, Selasi Awusi Sosu. Curator: Nana Oforiatta Ayim. Commissioner: Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture. Venue: Arsenale © Photo: Haupt & Binder


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January 25, 2022 2:37pm. Installation view of El Anatsui in the Ghana Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. (Photo by Laura Chiesa/Pacific Press/Sipa USA) (Sipa via AP Images) Ghana has announced.


El Anatsui Wins Venice Biennale Golden Lion News

23. April 2015 News El Anatsui is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia - All the World's Futures.


el anatsui awarded golden lion for lifetime achievement of the venice art biennale

The Ghanaian artist El Anatsui has won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at this year's Venice Biennale. Anatsui will receive the award—one of the top accolades in the art world—on.


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El Anatsui is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia - All the World's Futures.


Dusasa I, by El Anatsui Venice Biennial 2007 Artwork by … Flickr

El Anatsui is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia, 2015.