Interventions

El Anatsui
Interventions, 2022
Aluminium, copper wire and nylon string
Work: 400 x 400 cm

El Anatsui is one of the most significant living contemporary artists. Anatsui is respected for his contributions to African modernism. Within his practice, he explores geometry and form through materiality. A key contributor to the Nsukka art school and various artistic movements that ensued in West Africa, Anatsui has found interesting ways to negotiate the complexities of what it means to create as an artist from the continent. In his latest work, Interventions, Anatsui continues his method of using materials that are ubiquitous and relevant to his environment — an arrangement of aluminium, copper wire and nylon string creates pathways and routes that challenge spatial contours.