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Exhibition Detail
Gawu
North Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095


April 22nd, 2007 - August 26th, 2007
 
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WEBSITE:  
http://www.fowler.ucla.edu
NEIGHBORHOOD:  
culver city/west la
EMAIL:  
fowlerinfo@arts.ucla.edu
PHONE:  
310/825-4361
OPEN HOURS:  
Wed-Sun 12-5pm; Thurs 12-8pm
TAGS:  
found-object
COST:  
Free
> DESCRIPTION
Originally from Ghana but living in Nigeria since 1975, El Anatsui is one of Africa's most influential artists, recently named by Britain's The Independent as one of the fifty greatest cultural figures shaping the continent. His work dwells on the continent's history, drawing simultaneously on traditional African idioms and contemporary western art. This exhibition includes eight large-scale works that make use of large quantities of discarded everyday objects such as bottle tops, flattened food tins, and cassava graters woven together to create magnificent sculptural 'tapestries,' which recall the Ghanaian tradition of weaving kente cloth.
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