New Media : El Anatsui : Assemblage of cast off bottle casings tapestry

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/10/lacma-and-fowle.html

"Fading Scroll," a huge metal tapestry by El Anatsui that has graced the lobby of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Ahmanson Building for several months, has been jointly purchased by LACMA and the Fowler Museum at UCLA. The acquisition, made with support from the Broad Art Foundation, gives the two museums a major work by a leading African artist who was born in Ghana in 1944 and has lived and worked in Nigeria since 1975.




First piece of art: Society Woman’s Cloth, (2004) Second piece of art: Wastepaper Bags, (2004)






"Art grows out of each particular situation and I believe that artists are better off working with whatever their environment throws up." El Anatsui 

Early works