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    Artwork Survey: 2000s

    El Anatsui
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    • Wastepaper Bag
      2003
      Used aluminum printing plates and copper wire
      Dimensions variable

      Installation view, artist’s studio, Nsukka, Nigeria

      © El Anatsui

    • Wastepaper Bag
      2003
      Used aluminum printing plates and copper wire
      96 inches tall
      Collection of the artist

      Photo: Andy Keate

      © El Anatsui

    • Adinkra Sasa
      2003
      Aluminum and copper wire
      192 × 216 inches
      Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Guido Roberto Vitale

      Photo: Noel Brown

      © El Anatsui

    • Open(ing) Market
      2004
      Tin, paper, wood, and paint
      Installation dimensions variable, 1,767 pieces
      Collection of the artist

      © El Anatsui

    • Dzesi II
      2006
      Aluminum and copper wire
      117 × 195 inches
      Collection of the Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio

      © El Anatsui

    • Untitled
      recto (top) and verso (bottom)
      2006
      Aluminum and copper wire
      144 × 195 inches

      © El Anatsui

    • Dusasa II
      2007
      Aluminum liquor bottle caps and copper wire
      240 × 240 × 6 inches

      Installation view, Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, 52nd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, June 10–November 21, 2007

      © El Anatsui

    • Fresh and Fading Memories
      2007
      Aluminum and copper wire
      358 × 236 inches

      Installation view, Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, 52nd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, June 10–November 21, 2007

      Private collection

      © El Anatsui

    • Fading Scroll
      2007
      Aluminum and copper wire
      88 × 472 inches

      © El Anatsui

    • Sacred Moon
      2007
      Aluminum and copper wire
      103 × 141 inches
      Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Michigan, 608

      © El Anatsui

    • Zebra Crossing
      2007
      Aluminum and copper wire
      90 × 117 inches

      © El Anatsui

    • Takari in Blue
      2007
      Aluminum and copper wire
      54 × 63 inches
      Collection of Daryl Gerber Stokols and Jeffrey M. Stokols, Chicago

      © El Anatsui

    • River Crossing
      2007
      Aluminum and copper wire
      103 × 141 inches

      © El Anatsui

    • Bleeding Takari
      2008
      Aluminum and copper wire
      61 × 89 1/2 inches
      Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Gift of Donald L. Bryant, Jr. and Jerry Speyer, 201.2008

      © El Anatsui

    • Drying Towels
      2008
      Aluminum and copper wire
      3 elements, 157 × 472 inches each

      Installation view, Grandeur, 10th Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, The Netherlands, June 13–September 21, 2008

      © El Anatsui

    • Three Continents
      2009
      Found aluminum and copper wire
      96 × 192 inches
      Private Collection

      © El Anatsui

    • Anonymous Creature
      2009
      Aluminum and copper wire
      120 × 228 inches

      © El Anatsui

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