Exhibitions
El Anatsui GAWU
November 1, 2007 - January 20, 2008
El Anatsui Crumbling Wall, 2000
Collection of the Artist, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles
Photograph by Reed Hutchinson
See the KUAT TV special on El Anatsui here
The University of Arizona Museum of Art takes great pleasure in
presenting the large-scale sculpture of
celebrated African artist El Anatsui.
Using found materials, El Anatsui draws on
traditional African idioms and contemporary western art practices,
to comment on West African culture, history, and society.
El Anatsui GAWU has been presented at
The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College,
The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and
The Fowler Museum at UCLA.
The exhibition's final presentation following UAMA, will take place at
the
Smithsonian's National Museum for African Art in Washington, DC.
El Anatsui Gawu is an Oriel Mostyn Gallery Touring Exhibition
and
was generously supported by the Arts Council of Wales.
Additional funding was provided by Wales Arts International.
El Anatsui with Hovor, 2003
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, England
Photograph by Martin Barlow / Oriel Mostyn Gallery
El Anatsui is represented by the Jack Shainman Gallery Chelsea, New York
Visit our Exhibition History page for information on past exhibitions at UAMA.