Interview with El Anatsui

On April 1, 2011, El Anatsui traveled to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, to discuss the installation of his work at Stone Hill Center with the Clark's curatorial team. While there, he also met with his former student, Chika Okeke-Agulu, a 2008 Clark Fellow who now teaches African and African Diaspora art history and theory at Princeton University.

All works by El Anatsui are copyright and appear courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Strips of Earth's Skin, 2008. Found aluminum and copper wire, 12 ft. 10 in. x 22 ft. 10 in. (330.2 x 696 cm). The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica

Intermittent Signals, 2009. Found aluminum and copper wire, 11 x 35 ft. (335.3 x 1066.8 cm). The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica

Delta, 2010. Found aluminum and copper wire, 15 ft. 3 in. x 11 ft. 3 in. (464.8 x 342.9 cm). Private collection

Produced by Golden Lamb Productions
Original music composed by John Billingsley.

© 2011 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute


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