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El Anatsui, October Gallery

28 Feb 19 – 06 Apr 19, Tuesday - Saturday

El Anatsui's work spans many materials and decades, but his current exhibition at October Gallery showcases his most recent 'fabrics'

By CW Contributor on 28/2/2019

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El Anatsui, Change in Fortune, 2018, aluminium and copper, 294 x 290 cm. Photo Jonathan Greet. Courtesy October Gallery, London.
El Anatsui, Change in Fortune, 2018, aluminium and copper, 294 x 290 cm. Photo Jonathan Greet. Courtesy October Gallery, London.
El Anatsui, October Gallery El Anatsui, October Gallery Emily Spicer
El Anatsui's ‘fabric’ works are so rich that they look like the robes of an African king. But they are in fact made of humble materials. The Ghana-born artist constructs his sweeping creations from bottle tops, hammered and reshaped, so that they shimmer like golden scales, dotted throughout with flecks of bright colour.


Anatsui’s career is a long and distinguished one. In 2013 he bedecked the facade of the Royal Academy with one of his aluminium drapes, and, a year later, was named an honorary Royal Academician. He has also received international acclaim, picking up, along side many other awards, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Biennale. Now, he is helping October Gallery celebrate their 40th year with an exhibition that brings his best-known works back to London.


Speaking of his work Anatsui says: ‘The amazing thing about working with these metallic "fabrics" is that the poverty of the materials used in no way precludes the telling of rich and wonderful stories.’


What El Anatsui, October Gallery
Where October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL | MAP
Nearest tube Russell Square (underground)
When 28 Feb 19 – 06 Apr 19, Tuesday - Saturday
Price £Free
Website Click here for more details



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