El Anatsui in Toronto and Calgary
El Anatsui Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery
El Anatsui's appearances for Art Talks, a Canadian Art Foundation lecture series, were one of the highlights of the fall 2009 art season. Anatsui’s amazing metal-cloth works and important sculptures in wood, ceramic and mixed media will all be part of his world-premiere career retrospective that kicks off at the Royal Ontario Museum Institute for Contemporary Culture in fall 2010. The exhibition will then travel to New York for the landmark reopening of the Museum for African Art. Anatsui’s work has recently been exhibited at the Fowler Museum, Los Angeles; the Des Moines Art Centre; and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. His work is in many public collections including the Ghana National Art Collection, Accra; the National Museum of African Art, Washington; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The Toronto lecture was presented in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario
The Calgary lecture was presented in collaboration with the Glenbow Museum
