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Fading Cloth, 2005 (mixed media)

Fading Cloth, 2005 (mixed media)
21st-century
textile
textural
west-africa
ghanaian
african
bottle-tops
rippling
conceptual
rippled
fading
texture
hanging
wall
cloth
textiles
fluid
sculptural
21st-century
textile
textural
west-africa
ghanaian
african
bottle-tops
rippling
conceptual
rippled
fading
texture
hanging
wall
cloth
textiles
fluid
sculptural
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Fading Cloth, 2005 (mixed media)

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Anatsui, El (b.1944) / Ghanaian
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Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA

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mixed media

Date

2005 AD (C21st AD)

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320x640 cms

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Fading Cloth is made from discarded liquor bottle tops that were found by the artist and then flattened and stitched together with copper wire. Though crafted from metals, this sculptural work suggests a large textile. Since Europeans traded liquor and textiles for gold and slaves in West Africa, Fading Cloth, which simulates fabric with packaging from liquor bottles, weaves together a range of social, political, historical, and visual references specific to that region. The artist describes his technique as subverting "the stereotype of metal as a stiff, rigid medium and rather showing it as a soft, pliable, almost sensuous material capable of attaining immense dimensions and being adapted to specific spaces." El Anatsui lives and works in Nigeria. (The dimensions of this piece vary according to installation).

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Saint Louis Art Museum / Museum Minority Artists Purchase Fund / Bridgeman Images

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