We are pleased to share an article from this Sunday’s New York Times featuring October Gallery artist, El Anatsui on the cover of the arts section.
“One of that show’s most popular sights was an immense sheet of undulant light floating, floor to ceiling, at the very end of the Biennale’s main, long, cavernous exhibition hall, the Arsenale. In a city of mosaics, it could have been a super-mosaic, inlaid in silver and gold, or a fabulous gold-threaded tapestry, its surface broken by shimmering swags and folds.
Distance made a difference in understanding. When you moved closer you saw that the whole glinting thing was pieced together from countless tiny parts: pieces of colored metal pinched and twisted into strips, squares, circles and rosettes, linked together, like chain mail, with bits of copper wire.
Closer still, very close, you could make out words printed on some of the metal scraps: Bakassi, Chelsea, Dark Sailor, Ebeano, King Solomon, Makossa, Top Squad.
Some of them sounded foreign, non-European. So, when you learned it, did the artist’s name: El Anatsui. Hard to place geographically, it was just beginning to ring international art-world bells. He’s from Ghana, you heard, or Nigeria.”
Read Full Article : http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/arts/design/a-million-pieces-of-home-el-anatsui-at-brooklyn-museum.html?pagewanted=all
