El Anat­sui
Five Decades

7th January – 6th March 2016
Anna Schwartz Gallery Carriageworks

Acknowl­edged world­wide as one of the most remark­able artists work­ing today, El Anatsui’s metic­u­lous­ly con­struct­ed assem­blages exam­ine the com­plex his­to­ries of post-colo­nial Africa and the issues of con­sump­tion, waste and the environment.

Pre­sent­ed by Car­riage­works, Syd­ney Fes­ti­val and Anna Schwartz Gallery.

Images

El Anat­sui

Adinkra Sasa, 2003
© El Anat­sui. Cour­tesy the artist and Jack Shain­man Gallery, New York