Explore the monumental bottle-top sculptures of El Anatsui, a Ghanaian artist celebrated for his shimmering wall hangings reflecting history & identity. Time 100 included!
在耶米西·希隆艺术博物馆探索尼日利亚的艺术遗产!在这里您可以欣赏到超过1000件艺术品,包括Ben Enwonwu和El Anatsui等知名艺术家的雕塑与绘画。作为尼日利亚首家大学博物馆,为您带来启发无限的展览。
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