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El Anatsui:
Metas
October 28 – December 13, 2014
45 East 78th
Street
New York,
NY
From
mnuchingallery.com:
Mnuchin
Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition by globally renowned contemporary
artist El Anatsui. The show will present a body of entirely new work by the
artist, inspired in part by the architectural spaces of the gallery’s historic
townhouse. This will be Anatsui’s first exhibition in New York since his
acclaimed solo show, Gravity and Grace:
Monumental Works by El Anatsui, traveled to the Brooklyn Museum in 2013. It
is the artist’s first exhibition on New York’s Upper East Side and is organized
in collaboration with Jack Shainman Gallery.
Anatsui’s
work transforms humble recycled materials, such as liquor bottle caps and
labels, into glittering abstractions that blur the boundaries between painting
and sculpture. Often mounted on the wall in richly textured folds, they bring
to mind jewel-toned mosaics and embellished textiles. Born in Ghana and
currently living between Ghana and Nigeria, Anatsui references the colonial
histories, local economies, and aesthetic practices of both countries. His work
transcends geographic boundaries, engaging in an international dialogue
concerning consumption and the environment, as well as with global abstract
traditions, including that of Western painting.
Mnuchin
Gallery has a long history of presenting the highest caliber of monumental
abstraction. With a reputation for museum-quality shows by Abstract
Expressionists including Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock,
the gallery has also championed contemporary figures, such as David Hammons,
who mine the tensions between high/low materials to expand abstract painting’s
field of reference. Mnuchin Gallery is privileged to carry on in this tradition
with El Anatsui, whose show will mark its first primary market presentation
since David Hammons’s exhibition of tarp paintings in 2011.
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