'They Are Given a New Life': Watch Ghanaian Artist El Anatsui Weave Bottle Caps Into His Monumental, Innovative Sculptures | Artnet News
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El Anatsui creates sculptures made from bottle caps, a found material from discarded liquor bottles. “What are bottle caps? Liquor. How did liquor come into my culture and what does it mean,” asks the artist in our Season 6 “Change” episode. “When the European traders came to Africa for the first time, they brought things like drink. Because, eventually, drinks were exchanged for slaves.” Season 6 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” is available on YouTube for the first time ever. New episode s
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Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui transforms discarded bottle tops into monumental, shimmering tapestries that merge sculpture and textile. 'After the Red Moon' (originally 'Behind the Red Moon' at Tate Modern) lands at Shanghai’s Museum of Art Pudong (Sept 2024–Oct 2025) in three acts: 'The Waves' (custom-designed for the Huangpu River), 'The World' and a towering 'The Wall'. A Golden Lion La Biennale di Venezia and TIME 100 award-winner, Anatsui’s work probes colonial trade, migration, and material
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El Anatsui, a celebrated Ghanaian sculptor based in Nigeria, stands as a luminary in African and global contemporary art. Renowned for his innovative use of discarded materials, Anatsui's works, defy categorisation, embodying a unique blend of cultural heritage and artistic vision. The 2023 edition of the Hyundai Commission transforms London's Tate Modern's Turbine Hall into a captivating experience with El Anatsui's spectacular metal hanging sculptures. Titled 'Behind the Red Moon,' the exhibit
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Step into the Turbine Hall and let your gaze be lifted upwards - El Anatsui's monumental Behind The Red Moon sculpture invites you to embark on a three-part journey of light, colour and movement. Up close, this large scale installation made of bottle tops tell stories of global connections, the alcohol trade, and African-European histories. From a distance, the clinking metals form landscapes - waves, moon, earth and sky. On display until April 2024. https://bit.ly/46UimIe | Tate
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