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The book will be lavishly illustrated with photos of this new sculpture, while also serving as an introduction to the artist’s life and work

El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments. Crumpling, crushing, and stitching them into different compositions, large panels are pieced together to form massive abstract fields of color, shape, and line. The work builds on Anatsui’s interest in histories of encounter and the migration of goods and people during the transatlantic slave trade. In these astonishing hangings, the past and present of Africa and Europe merge into sculptural forms that embody Anatsui’s idea of the “non-fixed form” and are part of his highly experimental approach to sculpture. “Each material has its properties, physical, and even spiritual,” he explains. Behind the Red Moon explores elemental forces interwove

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      Publisher Tate Publishing
      Published 1/22/2024
      ISBN-13 9781849768610
      978-1849768610
      ISBN-10 1849768617

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The book will be lavishly illustrated with photos of this new sculpture, while also serving as an introduction to the artist’s life and work

      El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments. Crumpling, crushing, and stitching them into different compositions, large panels are pieced together to form massive abstract fields of color, shape, and line. The work builds on Anatsui’s interest in histories of encounter and the migration of goods and people during the transatlantic slave trade. In these astonishing hangings, the past and present of Africa and Europe merge into sculptural forms that embody Anatsui’s idea of the “non-fixed form” and are part of his highly experimental approach to sculpture. “Each material has its properties, physical, and even spiritual,” he explains. Behind the Red Moon explores elemental forces interwove

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