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El Anatsui

(b. 1944– )

Ghanaian sculptor

“When mortars are new they are put to so much intensive and vigorous use, but when they are discarded they are left to rot, and I found that that is a point at which to intervene and to do something with their lives. And from mortars I came to metals.”

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source: El Anatsui at the Clark (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 9.

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medium: Exhibition catalogue

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