| LC control no. | n 91104498 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Anatsui, El, 1944- |
| Variant(s) | Anatsui, Emmanuel Kwami, 1944- El Anatsui, 1944- |
| Other standard no. | Q1323876 |
| Associated country | Ghana |
| Associated place | Nigeria |
| Birth date | 1944 |
| Place of birth | Anyako (Ghana) Volta Region (Ghana) |
| Affiliation | University of Science and Technology (Ghana) |
| Profession or occupation | Painters Sculptors Artists |
| Found in | Contemporary African artists, 1990: title page (El Anatsui) LC data base, 10-15-91 (hdg.: El Anatsui, 1944-) E-mail from National Museum of African Art, Mar. 23, 1998 (Sculptor's surname is Anatsui; his first name is El; his full name, which he does not use professionally, is Emmanuel Kwami Anatsui) El Anatsui, 2012 Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (El, Anatsui; painter, sculptor; born in 1944 in Anyako, Ghana; attended the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana (1965-1969); was influenced by the work of Oku Ampofo, Vincent Akwete Kofi, and Kofi Antubam, emphasizing indigenous art forms; replaced Kofi Antubam as national artist, encouraging the emergence of new national identity in Ghana; his first exhibition at Nsukka (1979) produced work reminiscent of traditional woodcarvers from Awka in Nigeria the cloth strips of Ewe and Asante kente weavers in Ghana (1980's); used old materials into his work, in a style incorporated in his work, Bright Underwear of a Fallen God (1988), and The Ancestors Converged Again (1988, 1995); exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2007); was one of five representatives from Africa in Five Contemporary African Artists at the forty-fourth Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy) Wikipedia, Apr. 25, 2016 (El Anatsui (b. 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria; has drawn particular international attention in recent years for his iconic "bottle-top installations", distinctive large-scale assemblages of thousands of pieces of aluminium sourced from alcohol recycling stations and sewn together with copper wire, transformed into metallic cloth-like wall sculptures in a way that can "draw connections between consumption, waste, and the environment") <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Anatsui> |
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