Pictures of El Anatsui’s show at the Brooklyn Museum. I tried to show the range of scales in the pictures. Most of the sculptures are made of whiskey bottle caps and canned milk lids. Click on the images to see them bigger. Photos taken on my phone.
Snakes made from rolled sheets of linked milk can lids.
These cloaks were much bigger then a real cloak that a person would wear. Made of bottle caps that were flattened end-wise.
Detail of above.
I was trying to figure out how these were made. They are said to be made with a chainsaw but I think kerfs were first cut with a circular saw.
I am a fool for this picture. These old stairs were roped off, but one could look down.
Looking up at a black tapestry. Made of interlinked unrolled bottle caps.
Red tapestry from the front. Made of interlinked unrolled bottle caps.
Red tapestry seen from behind. The light goes through.
Teens posing in front of above.
Yams made of milk can lids.
A little closer…
Detali of above.
El anitsui. Wonderful!
Wish I was there again. But your images seem even more intense and beautiful than the show.