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El Anatsui Builds Monumental Art From Daily Life

It’s one of the great origin stories in contemporary art, a flash of instinct that would revolutionize a field. In 1998, El Anatsui was walking around Nsukka, Nigeria, and noticed a bag of aluminum bottle caps by the roadside. Anatsui, then a professor at the University of Nigeria who was drawn to daily-life materials in […]

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