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Hesitant Rivers
Aluminum, copper wire
2012
233 x 388 cm

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Stitch in Time II
Aluminum, copper wire
2012
497 x 403 cm

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Prophet
Aluminum, copper wire
2012
238 x 279 cm

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Hermit
Aluminum, copper wire
2012
276 x 276 cm

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Flame of/in the forest
Aluminum, copper wire
2012
226 x 327 cm

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El Anatsui (°1944)

1944 Born in Anyako, Ghana
Lives and works in Nsukka, Nigeria

Education and teaching
1965- 1968 Bachelor's degree in sculpture from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
1969 Postgraduate diploma in art education from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
1975-1982 Lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
1982-1996 Senior Lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
1996-present Professor of Sculpture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
2012
Stitch in Time - Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Chance Encounters: Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa - Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, IN

2011
El Anatsui - Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

2010
A Fateful Journey: Africa in the Works of El Anatsui - travelling exhibition, Japan
El Anatsui - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
El Anatsui: Gli - Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

2009
When I Last Wrote To You About Africa - travelling exhibition, USA
Transavangarde - October Gallery, London, UK
El Anatsui - Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
El Anatsui - Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, USA
Process and Project - Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA (organized by the Museum of African Art, New York)
Against Exclusion - 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscom, RU
Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers - Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, ES

2008
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design without End - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary - Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Art Basel 39 - Basel, CH
Angaza Africa - October Gallery, London, UK
Grandeur, 10th Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition - Sonsbeek, NL
Earth Growing Roots - San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA
Zebra Crossing - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art - Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA
Recycling: The Whole House - Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstenter, Hadmar, NO
World Histories - Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
Prospect.1 - New Orleans, USA
El Anatsui: Gawu - travelling exhibition, USA (a.o. Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC)

2007
Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art - Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, IT
Still Life: Art Ecology & Politics of Change - Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates
Contemporary African Art from the Collection of William Jones - Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Un/Fair Trade: The Art of Injustice - Neue Galerie, Graz, AT
Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense - 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Trans Cape: Contemporary African Art on the Move - Cape Town, ZA
Living Masters - Guaranty Trust Bank, Lagos
From Courage to Freedom: El Anatsui/Hazoumé/Owusu-Ankoma - October Gallery, London, UK
Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design - Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

2006
BoysCraft - Haifa Museum of Art, IL
-poiesis - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - travelling exhibition in USA and Japan
El Anatsui: Asi - David Krut Projects, New York, USA
El Anatsui: Nyekor - Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, IT
The Black Panther Rank and File - Yerba Buena Center of Arts, San Francisco, USA
Altered, Stitched and Gathered - P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Afrique-Europe: Rêves Croisés - Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, BE
Expanding Africa: New Art, New Directions - Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Dak'Art 2006, 7ème Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain - Dakar, Senegal
Body of Evidence - National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Trienal de Luanda - Luanda, Angola

2005
AKA... of Age 2005 - Maison de France, Lagos, Nigeria
In the Making: Materials and Process - Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, ZA
Out There - Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
Danudo: Recent Sculptures of El Anatsui - Skoto Gallery, New York, USA

2004
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent - travelling exhibition (a.o. Museum Kunstpalast, Centre Pompidou, Moderna Museet...)
A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water - 5th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Intelligence Now! - October Gallery, London, UK

2002
El Anatsui: Recent Works - October Gallery, London, UK

1998
El Anatsui: As Sculpted History of Africa - October Gallery, London, UK

1997
Hakpa - French Cultural Center, Lagos, Nigeria

1995
El Anatsui - October Gallery, London, UK

1993
So Far: Drawings, Paintings, Prints 1963-1993 - Italian Cultural Institute, Lagon, Nigeria

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