biography / bibliography
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EL ANATSUI
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (PERIODICALS)
2011
"Art/Ethnology Museums and the Framing of Contemporary African Art–Farrell « Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art." Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. 28 Apr. 2011. Web. 14 May 2011. .
Cook, Greg. “El Anatsui shows why he’s one of the best.” The Boston Phoenix. 12 April 2011. Web. 14 May 2011. .
Cotter, Holland. “From Africa, Nature as Victim and Muse” (Skidmore College Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 10 June 2011: C24.
Ding, Chinnie. “Critic’s Pick––El Anatsui” (Davis Museum and Cultural Center exhibition review). Artforum (July 2011): illustrated.
Douglas, Sarah and Andrew M. Goldstein. “Bargains Were the New Bling at the Armory Show’s VIP Opening, With Affordable Works Joining Blue-Chip Art for Lively Sales.” Artinfo.com, 3 March 2011.
Goldstein, Andrew M. “Francois Pinault Hones His Grip on Venice by Reorganizing Art Sites.” Artinfo.com, 14 March 2011.
Kley, Elizabeth. “El Anatsui: Skoto.” Art News 105, no. 4 (April 2006): 146.
Miller, Leigh Anne. “Community Fabric: El Anatsui at the Clark” (exhibition review). Art in America. 21 July 2011. Web. 21 July 2011. .
Okeke-Agulu, Chika. “New Order.” Arise Magazine. March 2011. Web. 17 May 2011. .
Okeke-Agulu, Chika. “NKA Roundtable II: Contemporary African Art History and the Scholarship.” NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 26 (Spring 2010): 80–151, illustrated.
Smee, Sebastian. “At the vanguard of a wave: The celebrated African artist El Anatsui brings a fascinating retrospective to the Davis Museum” (Davis Museum exhibition review). The Boston Globe, 1 April 2011: illustrated.
Studer, Margaret. “Collecting: At Tefaf, Where the Action Is.” Wall Street Journal, 25 March 2011.
Wallace-Thompson, Anna. “Western Artists Make New Inroads at Art Dubai 2011.” Artinfo.com, 17 March 2011.
Wilkin, Karen. “At the Clark, Social Commentary Made Beautiful” (Clark Art Institute exhibition review). The Wall Street Journal, 10 August 2011: illustrated.
2010
Harris, Gareth. “Gates Foundation Commissions Ghanian artist.” The Art Newspaper: Art Basel Miami Beach Edition, 3 December 2010: front page, illustrated.
Poddar, Sandhini, ‘Best of 2010,’ Artforum, December, p 218 (cover)
Enwezor, Okwui, ‘Best of 2010,’ Artforum, December, p 201
Sandals, Leah, ‘Questions & Artists: El Anatsui,’ The National Post, October 8
Nicholas, Venessa, ‘El Anatsui: Reshaping the Everyday,’ Canadian Art online, October 27
Adams, James, ‘El Anatsui’s shimmering echoes of a painful past,’ The Globe and Mail, Saturday October 2
Picard, Charmaine, ‘I was kept away by things I should know,’ Art Newspaper, no. 217, October
The Metropolitan Museum of Art––Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 2008–2010. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010: 82, illustrated.
Russeth, Andrew, ‘A Conversation with El Anatsui,’ Artinfo, March 17
Smith, Roberta, ‘Swagger and Sideburns: Bad Boys in Galleries,’ New York Times, February 12
Hinshaw, Drew, ‘El Anatsui,’ Whitewall Magazine, winter issue
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote To You About Africa (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lisa M. Binder, Anthony Appiah, Olu Oguibe and Chika Okeke-Agulu. New York: Museum for African Art, 2010.
2009
Jumabhoy, Zehra, ‘Chance Encounters,’ Artforum
van der Zalm, Jeroen, ‘Bisi Silva says: Artists from Africa and India have much in common,’ The Power of Culture Website, May
Mehta, Kanchi, ‘Chance Encounters,’ Art Concerns.com, May
Worth, Alexi, ‘El Anatsui and a Thousand Bottles of Rum on the Wall,’ New York Times, T Magazine, February
2008
Silva, Bisi, ‘Lagos,’ Artforum, December 2008 p 237
Smith, Roberta ‘Kaleidoscopic Biennial for a Scarred City,’ New York Times, November 4, 2008
Rosenberg, Karen ‘African Art, Modern and Traditional: Seductive Patterns From a Rich Palette,’ New York Times, October 10, 2008
Smith, Roberta ‘Using Old Materials to Put a New Face on a Museum,’ New York Times, September 26,
Riley, Cheryl, Art Without Borders, Uptown Magazine, Summer Issue 2008 p 32
Bonetti, Roberta ‘El Anatsui al Metropolitan Museum of Art, Un ponte fra tradizione e contemporaneita,’ Africa e Mediterraneo Magazine, March p 60
Pollack, Barbara ‘The New Razzle- Dazzle,’ ArtNews June, p 116
Eastwick, Redux-Culture Watch, Departures Magazine, May/June p 140
Hasewend, Reinhard, ‘Multiple Chaos,’ Sleek Magazine Spring p 62
Stackhouse, Christopher, ‘New York: El Anatsui,’ Modern Painters, April p 79
Ray, Rachel. “Scraps of Beauty:African Sculptor El Anatsui Reclaims His Surroundings.” The Washington Diplomat. June 2008. Web. 14 May 2011.
2007
‘The Top 50 African Artists,’ Utne Reader Magazine, October 2007 p 46
Kimmelman, Michael ‘That Unruly, Serendiptous Show in Venice’ Weekend Arts: The New York Times, Friday June 15
Vogel, Carol, ‘Art in the Present Tense: Politics, Loss and Beauty’ The New York Times, June 11, 2007
Herbert, Michael, ‘Africa in the Present Tense,’ Modern Painters June 2007
Hynes, Nancy J. “Gawu–the Art of Alchemy” (exhibition review). KNA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 21 (Fall 2007): 134–136, illustrated.
Cook, Greg. “Dartmouth showcases sculptor who turns junk into precious metals” (Hood Museum of Art exhibition review). The Boston Globe, 24 February 2007.
2006
Rubinstein, Raphael, ‘Full-Metal Fabrics,’ Art in America, May 2006
Kley, Elisa. Sea Symposium: Ten Sculptors Create Works on Germany’s Wet Desert,’ International Sculpture, 1985, Washington DC, USA. pp 8-9.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (BOOKS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES)
2011
A Fateful Journey: Africa in the Works of El Anatsui (exhibition catalogue). Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2010.
ARS 11 (exhibition catalogue). Helinski: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, 2011: 94–99, illustrated.
El Anatsui at the Clark (exhibition catalogue). Text by Alisa LaGamma. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
2010
El Anatsui: Zebra Crossing (exhibition catalogue). Text by Elizabeth Harney and Odili Donald Odita. New York: Jack Shainman Editions, 2010.
When Last I Wrote To You About Africa, Museum for African Art, 2010
2003
Anatsui, El, ‘Personal Security’ in Biennale de Ceramica dell’ Arte Contemporanea, 2003, Attese, Milano, Italy
Eulise, Eriberto, Afriche, Diaspore, Ibridi – Conceptualism as a Strategy in Contemporary African
Art, 2003, AIEP Edizione, Bologna, Italy. pp 182
Kwami, Atta, ‘Ghanian Art in a Time of Change’ in Falgyrettes-Leveau, Christiane, and Owusu-Sarpong, Christiane (eds.), Ghana: Hier et Aujourd’hui, Yesterday and Today, 2003, Musée Dapper, Paris, France. pp 312-314, 316-317
2002
Fall, N. & Pivin, J. L. (eds.), An Anthology of African Art in the 20th Century, 2002, Editions Revue
Noire, Paris, France. pp 378-379
2001
Africas: The Artist and the City, 2001, Centro de Cultura Contemporania Barcelona (CCCB),
Barcelona, Spain. pp 94-97
Visona, M. B. et al., A History of Art in Africa, 2001, Hall and Abrams, New York, USA. pp 226-227.
Jazz and Visual Improvisations (exhibition catalogue). Katonah: Katonah Museum of Art, 2001.
2000
Bogatzke, H., et al., Ondambo – An African Art Forum, 2000, Gamsberg-Macmillan, Windhoek,
Namibia. pp 157-165
Kemp, Martin (ed.), The Oxford History of Western Art, 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. p 488
Messagers de la Terre, 2000, Rur’ Art – Espace d’Art Contemporain d’Lycée Agricole Xavier Bernard, Rouille, France
1999
Kasfir, S-L., Contemporary African Art, 1999, Thames & Hudson, London, UK. pp 17. 189
King, Catherine, ‘Modern Art in Nigeria– Independence and Innovation,’ in King, Catherine (ed.), Views of Difference, Different Views of Art, 1999, Yale University Press, London, UK. pp 215-219
Oguibe, O. & Enwizor, O. (eds) Reading the Contemporary, African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, 1999, INIVA, London, UK. pp 156-157, 163-164
1998
Houghton, Gerard, ‘El Anatsui and the Transvangarde,’ in El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of
Africa, 1998, Saffron Books, (Imprint of Eastern Art Publishing), in conjunction with the October
Gallery, London. pp 27-36
Kawaguchi, Yukiya, ‘A Fateful Journey,’ in El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa, 1998, Saffron Books, (Imprint of Eastern Art Publishing), in conjunction with October Gallery, London. pp 79-88
Lalouschek, Elisabeth, ‘Ein Künstler der Transvangarde: Weltansichten und Weltgeschichten,’ in El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa, 1998, Saffron Books, (Imprint of Eastern Art Publishing), in conjunction with the October Gallery, London. pp 65-70
Njami, Simon, ‘Un artiste sur le fil de l’histoire,’ in El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa, 1998, Saffron Books, (Imprint of Eastern Art Publishing), inconjunction with the October Gallery, London. pp 71-78
Péri-Willis, Elisabeth, A. ‘Chambers of Memory,’ in El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa, 1998, Saffron Books, (Imprint of Eastern Art Publishing), in conjunction with the October Gallery, London. pp 79-88
Picton, John, ‘Patches of history’ patching up my art history: some reflections on the sculpture of El Anatsui’ in El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa,1998, Saffron Books, (Imprint of Eastern Art Publishing), in conjunction with the October Gallery, London. pp 17-26
1997
Marcoci, Roxana, New Art, 1997, Harry N Abrams Inc., New York, USA
Ottenberg, Simon, ‘El Anatsui: Colourful Woods and Dark Lines’ (chapter 9) in New Traditions from Nigeria: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, The National Museum of African Art, 1997, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA. pp 154-179
1996
Container ‘96, København Kulturby Fond ‘96, 1996, Copenhagen, Denmark. pp 11-12
1995
Configura 2: A Conversation between Obiora Udechukwu and Ulli Beier, Erfurt, Germany, 1995,
Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Okeke, Chika, ‘The Quest: from Zaria to Nsukka,’ in Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa 1995, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. pp 58-59
The Right to Hope, 1995, Earthscan Publications, London
An Inside Story: African Art of Our Time, 1995, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. pp 127, 188
1993
Anatsui, El, ‘Beyond Kpaaza’ (introductory essay) in Uche Okeke: A Retrospective Exhibition,
1993, Nsukka/Lagos ARTGRADS-UNN, Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria
Udechukwu, Obiora, El Anatsui So Far: Drawings, Paintings, Prints, 1963-1993, 1993, Norbert Åas, Boomerang Press,Bayreuth, Germany
1992
Begegnung Mit Den Anderen (Begin With The Others), 1992, University of Kassel, Germany
Kennedy, Jean, New Currents, Ancient Rivers: Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change, 1992, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA. pp 17, 19
Klima Global (Arte Amazonas), 1992, Goethe Institute, Brasilia, Brazil
1991
Il Sud Del Mondo (South of the World), Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Italy), 1991,
Gabrielle Mazzotta, Milan, Italy.
1990
XLIV Expositione Internazionale d’Arte : La Biennale di Venezia , 1990, Fabbri Editori, Venice
1986
Fosu, Kojo, 20th Century Art of Africa, 1986, Gaskiya Corporation, Zaria, Nigeria. pp 202, 205
and 207-209
1984
Zweites Symposium Nordseeküste, Künstler vor dem Deich, 1984, Cuxhaven, Germany
1982
Anatsui, El, Sculptures, Photographs, and Drawings, Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1982, SNAAP
Press, Enugu, Nigeria