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El Anatsui

El Anatsui

Sculpture

, Ghana

The story

He turns liquor-bottle caps and discarded metal into gold-and-crimson cloth that ripples down museum walls, making a continent's cast-offs hang like royalty. Ghanaian sculptor who stitches thousands of flattened bottle caps and aluminium seals into shimmering, drapeable metal tapestries the scale of building facades.

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