Installing El Anatsui

El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa March 30 - June 26, 2011  Opening Wednesday, March 30 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm  Learn more at: https://www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu/whats-on/current/el-anatsui-when-i-last-wrote-to-you-about-africa  When I Last Wrote to You about Africa, the Ghanaian artist’s first career retrospective, makes its U.S. debut at the Davis. Widely lauded for magnificent large-scale wall hangings made from thousands of discarded liquor-bottle tops “sewn” together with copper wire, and for installation pieces similarly crafted from refuse, Anatsui draws on traditional idioms and contemporary art practices to create work that resonates materially and symbolically with the cultural and historical conditions of West Africa.