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Organizers.
They came. They saw. They organized.
Before he was globally celebrated for his works in found metal, El Anatsui first pursued sculptural forms in ceramics and found wood. He notes, "I look at textures of my work in process and I think about the texture and grain of Africa's history; I look at the authentic colors of the different types of wood and they remind me of the real colors of history."
The Ancestors Converged Again is a relatively rare example of figurative art in wood from this Ghanaian master. Using the expressive forms of the wood he gathered, Anatsui transforms scraps into embodiments of once-distant, now-present spiritual and historical figures through minimal sculptural interventions and the process of ordering and re-ordering his sculptures. Eyes wide, taking in the troubled current moment in which they have been called together, these ancestors confer -- and plan their response. |