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El Anatsui (1944 –)

Découvrez les sculptures monumentales d'El Anatsui, un artiste ghanéen célèbre pour ses tapisseries scintillantes reflétant l'histoire et l'identité. Inclus dans le Time 100 !

Musée Yemisi Shyllon (Lagos, Nigeria)

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Emmanuel Kwami Anatsui is a painter and sculptor born in Anyako, Ghana in 1944. He obtained a B.A, majoring in Sculpture, in 1968; a postgraduate diploma in art education in 1969; and won the best student of the year award, 1969 all from the College of Art, University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He started out as a lecturer at the Specialist Training Centre, Winneba, Ghana between 1969-1975. He then relocated to Nigeria and became a sculpture professor at the Department of Fine and Applied Art of the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1975. Anatsui has spent the better part of his career in Nigeria and has explored different media including wood, clay and found objects in his creative, sculptural experiments as an artist. His first solo exhibition in Nigeria was the

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À propos de cette œuvre

Titre: Untitled
Artiste: El Anatsui
Année: 1990
Format: Portrait
Statut du droit d'auteur: Protégé par le droit d'auteur
Où le voir: Musée Yemisi Shyllon
Palette de couleurs: Earthy
Couleur dominante: Rosy Brown