october gallery
EL ANATSUI 10th February - 19th March 2005
Adinkra Sasa, 2003, detail
Adinkra Sasa, 2003, detail
Adinkra Sasa, 2003
Sasa, 2003
Peak Project , 1999 (detail)
Earth Cloth, 2003 (detail)
Earth Cloth, 2003
Hovor , 2003 (detail)
Hovor , 2003
Wastepaper Bag , 2003
Wastepaper Bags, 2003
Old Man’s Cloth, 2004
Stained Bedsheet , 2005
Flag For a New World Power , 2004
Baby’s Bedsheet , 2005
Gawu Works Featured Adinkra Sasa, 2003
Aluminium and copper wire, fabric 487.7 x 548.6 cm, £25,000 Earth Cloth, 2003
Aluminium bottle tops and copper wire 487.7 x 457.2 cm, £20,000 Flag For a New World Power , 2004
Aluminium Bottle Tops and Copper Wire 500 x 450 cm, £25,000 Hovor , 2003
Aluminium Bottle Tops and Copper Wire 609.6 x 548.6 cm, £25,000 Peak Project , 1999
Tin Milk Can Lids and Copper Wire In 100 parts, installed dimensions variable, £45,000 Wastepaper Bag , 2003
Aluminium Plates and Copper Wire 244 cm high, width variable, £12,500 Sasa, 2003-2004
Aluminium Bottle Tops and Copper Wire 426.7 x 365.8 cm, £40,000 Old Man’s Cloth, 2003
Aluminium Bottle Tops and Copper Wire 487.7 x 548.6 cm, £15,000
Stained Bedsheet, 2005
Aluminium Bottletops and Copper Wire 259 x 266 cm, £10,000 Baby’s Bedsheets, 2005
Aluminium Bottletops and Copper Wire 235 x260 cm, £10,000
Other works available by El Anatsui at the October Gallery
Oga in Green Stonewash and Lace, 2002
Tropical Hardwoods, Copper, Housepaint 87 x 170 cm, £4,350 Torn Towel VI , 2002
Tropical Hardwoods and Tempera 61 x 135 cm, £3,500 Communication Lines in 1004 Flats, 2002
Tropical Hardwoods and Tempera 61 x 140 cm, £3,200 Stonewash, 2002
Tropical Hardwoods, Textile, Housepaints 85 x 91 cm, £3,800 Day and Night Opening to Each Other , 2002
Tropical Hardwoods, Keys, Padlock 95 x111 cm, £4,000 1004 Flats, 2002
Tropical Hardwoods,Tempera 62 x 150 cm, £3,200
1004 Flats II , 2002
Tropical Hardwoods, Tempera 62 x 144 cm, £3,200 Split Personality, 1995
Tropical Hardwood Height 132 cm, £ 8,000 Man Resplendent , 1995
Tropical Hardwood Height 174 cm, £10,000 Popular Window III , 1995
Tropical Hardwood, Housepaint, Paper, Hinges 54 x 203 cm, £3,500 Prices do not include VAT
Oga in Green Stonewash and Lace, 2002 Popular Window III , 2002
Torn Towel VI , 2002 Communication Lines in 1004 Flats, 2002
Day and Night Opening to Each Other , 2002 1004 Flats, 2002
Stonewash, 2002 Neospeak Windows, 2002
Split Personality, 1995 Man Resplendent, 1995
Biography Education
1969 1965-1969
Postgraduate Diploma in Art Education, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. BA (Art) College of Art, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Teaching
1996-present Professor of Sculpture, Fine and Applied Arts Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria (UNN). 1998-2000 Head of Department, Fine and Applied Arts Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria (UNN). 1982-1996 Senior Lecturer, Fine and Applied Arts Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria (UNN). 1975-1982 Lecturer, Fine and Applied Arts Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria (UNN). 1969-1975 Lecturer, Art Education Department, Specialist Training College (now University of Winneba), Winneba, Ghana.
One person exhibitions
2004 2003
El Anatsui: Gawu, October Gallery, London, UK El Anatsui: Gawu, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK. An Oriel Mostyn
2002 1998 1997
Gallery exhibition touring to Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Republic of Ireland, Gallery Oldham, Oldham, England, UK, October Gallery, London, UK, Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, England, UK and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. El Anatsui: New Works, October Gallery, London, UK. A Sculpted History of Africa, October Gallery, London, UK. Hakpa, French Cultural Centre, Lagos, Nigeria.
1995 1991
El Anatsui , October Gallery, London, UK. Old and New: An Exhibition of Sculpture in Assorted Wood , The National Museum,
Lagos, Nigeria. 1987
Venovize: Ceramic Sculptures, Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, Cornwall College,
Redruth, UK. Pieces of Wood: An Exhibition of Mural Sculpture, The Franco-German Auditorium,
Lagos, Nigeria. 1982 1980
Sculptures, Photographs, Drawings, Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria. Wood Carvings, Cummington Community of Arts, Cummington, Massachusetts,
USA. 1979
Broken Pots: Sculpture by El Anatsui , British Council, Enugu and the Institute of
1976
African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. Wooden Wall Plaques, Asele Art Gallery, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Two person exhibitions
1996 1988
El Anatsui & Tesfaye Tessema, The Contemporary African Gallery, New York, USA. El Anatsui & Sol Le Witt , Skoto Gallewry, New York, USA. Walls and Gates– El Anatsui & Liz Willis, Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria. Thoughts and Processes– El Anatsui & Ndubisi Onah, The Italian Cultural Institute,
Lagos, Nigeria.
Selected group exhibitions
2004 2003 2002 2001
Afrika Remix , Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany and touring to the
Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Africa Informs, October Gallery, London, UK. Biennale de Ceramica dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Villa Groppallo, Vado Ligure, Italy. Transfers, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium. One: The Independent , Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK. Encounters with the Contemporary , National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA. The Happy Face of Globalisation, The 1st Albissola Ceramics Biennale, Museo
2000
1999
1998 1997 1996
1995
Civico d’Arte Contemporanea and Museo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Albissola, Italy, touring to Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland. Elf Village, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Africas: The Artist and the City , Centro de Cultura Contemporania Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain. News from the Front , October Gallery, London, UK. El Tiempo de Africa (Africa’s Time), Centro Atlántico Arte Moderno, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. Messagers de la Terre, Rur’Art– Espace d’Art Contemporain d’Lycée Agricole Xavier Bernard, Rouille, France. New Colours From Old Worlds: Contemporary Art from West Africa, October Gallery, London, UK. The Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK. The Independent , Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK. Les Champs de la Sculpture, Presented by the City of Paris and organised by the Paris Cultural Afairs Department, Champs Elysées, Paris, France. Contemporary Art from West Africa, October Gallery, London, UK. 7. Triennale der Kleineplastik , Stüttgart, Germany. Riddle of the Spirits– Twelve African Artists, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA. 9th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan. The Poetics of Line– Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group, The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK. Container ’96– Art Across Oceans, Langelinie, Copenhagen, Denmark. Images of Africa, Torpedohallen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden. Africana, Sala 1, Rome, Italy. Transforms, October Gallery, London, UK. Group Exhibition, Avant-Garde Gallery, Kaduna, Nigeria. AKA ’95 , Bona Gallery, Enugu and Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria. 8th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan. Contemporary African Art , World Intellectual Property Organisation Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK. The Right to Hope, Johannesburg Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, touring to Cairo, Amman, Gaza, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
An Inside Story– African Art of our Time, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, touring to
1994 1993 1992
1991
1990 1990
1989 1988
the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima; Himeji City Museum of Arts, Himeji; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama; Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan. Configura 2 , Erfurt, Germany. Art In The Shadow , The Nigerian Pavillion at Africus– 1st Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa. Uli Art– Master Works, Skoto Gallery, New York, USA. 5th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba. Six African Artists, October Gallery, London, UK. New Currents ’93– Avant-Garde Nigerian Art , Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria. Begegnung mit den Anderen, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany. AKA ’92 , Bona Galley, Enugu and Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria. Arte Amazonas, Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and subsequently touring as Klima Global to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin and Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany. AKA ’91, Bona Gallery, Enugu and Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria. Works by a Group of African Artists, The World Bank Art Society Gallery, World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC, USA. The Sculptor’s Guild of Nigeria Inaugural Exhibition, Murtala Mohammed Park, Enugu, Nigeria. South of the World , Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Italy. The Calabash 1st Art Exhibition, The Calabash, Lagos, Nigeria. AKA ’90 , The Presidential Hotel, Enugu and Goethe Insitut, Lagos, Nigeria. Five Contemporary African Artists, 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Contemporary African Artists:Changing Tradition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, touring to the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago Public Library Cultural Centre, Chicago, Illinois; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC and the Museum of the National Centre of African-American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Achebe Celebration Exhibition, Continuing Education Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. Zeitgenössische Nigerianische Kunst , Bonn, Bocholt and Mönchengladbach, Germany. AKA ’88 , Nigerian Union of Journalists’ Press Centre, Enugu; Institute of African Studies, Nsukka and the National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria.
1987
1986
1983 1982 1981 1979 1975 1974
Original Prints from the 3rd Nsukka Workshop, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and
Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria AKA ’87 , The Presidential Hotel, Enugu and the National Gallery of Crafts and Design, Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerian-German Prints, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the Franco-German Auditorium, Lagos, Nigeria AKA ’86– Inaugural Exhibition of the AKA Circle of Artists, the French Centre, Enugu and Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria. Four Contemporary African Artists, Mintec Gallery, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Okike 10th Anniversary Exhibition, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. Drawing on the World , Billingham Art Gallery, Billingham; Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough and the House of Commons Gallery, Westminster, London, UK. Christian Arts in Nigeria, Holy Trinity Cathedral Hall, Onitsha, Nigeria. The Nsukka School , Art Gallery of the Rivers State Council for Arts and Culture, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Fabric Wall Hangings, Burnt Wooden Wall Plaques, The Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. Tekarts Expo 5 , Accra Arts Centre, Accra, Ghana.
International Exchanges and Workshops
2003
2001 1999 1997 1996 1993 1990-1992 1990
Residency, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Visiting Artist, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; University of California, Santa Barbara, California and St. Lawrence Univer sity, New York, USA. Residency and Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri Centre, Umbertide, Italy Cyfuniad International Artist’s Residency, Plas Caerdeon, Barmouth, Wales, UK International Visitor, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. Ondambo– International Forum for African Artists, Windhoek, Namibia. Visiting Artist, International People’s College. Helsingør, Denmark. Images of Africa, Helsingør and Copenhagen, Denmark. International Visitors Programme, USA. World Council Member, International Society for Education through Art (INSEA). International Visitors Programme, USA.
1985 1984 1982-1985 1980
Visiting Artist, Cornwall College, Redruth, UK. Zweites Symposium Nordseeküste, Cuxhaven, Germany. World Council Member, International Society for Education through Art (INSEA). Artist-in-Residence, Cummington Community of Arts, Massachusetts, USA.
Curatorial Experience
2001 1999
New Energies– Recent Graduate Artists from Nsukka (curator), Mydim and Nimbus Galleries, Lagos, Nigeria. Promoter of The Nigerian Art Series, Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria.
Prizes
2000 1999 1998 1995 1991 1990 1969 1968
Founding Member and Fellow, Forum for African Arts. Member, International Selection Committee, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal. The Public’s Prize, 7. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stüttgart, Germany. Bronze Prize, 9th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan. Kansai Telecasting Corporation Prize, 3rd Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan. Fellow, Pan-African Circle of Artists (PACA). Honourable Mention (Joint), 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Best Student of the Year, College of Art, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Honourable Mention, First Ghana National Art Competition, Accra, Ghana.
Public Collections
African Studies Gallery, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland. Asele Institute, Nimo, Nigeria. The British Museum, London, UK. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, USA. Diamond Bank of Nigeria, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
French Cultural Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. Ghanaian Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark. The Hammermill Collection, Hellebaek, Helsingør, Denmark. International Peoples’ College, Helsingør, Denmark. Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. The National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria. The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA. Osaka Foundation of Culture, Osaka, Japan. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. The World Bank Art Collection, Washington DC, USA.
Film & Television
1998 1992 1990
1984
Ondambo, Arandis, Namibia. West Africa: Art and Identities, Nick Levinson and Catherine King, BBC Open Univer sity, London, UK. Arte Amazonas, John Arden, Rio de Janerio, Brazil XLIV Expositione Internationale d’Arte: La Biennale di Venezia, Studio Mestiere Cinema, Venice, Italy. Kindred Spirits: Contemporary Nigerian Artists, Smithsonian World, Washington DC, USA. Zweites Symposium Nordseeküste, Cuxhaven, Germany.
Selected Bibliography (Journals) Anatsui, El, ‘The Vulture and the Angel: Contemporary African Art and Western Art Criticism’,
presented at Barcelona Talks, 1 June 2001, Centro de Cultura Contemporania Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain. (forthcoming publication). Anatsui, El, ‘Sankofa: Go Back an’ Pick: Three Studio Notes and a Conversation’, Third Text, Issue 23, Summer 1993, Kala Press, London, UK. pp. 39-52. Aniakor, C. C., ‘El Anatsui: Visual Incantations’, The International Review of African American Art, Vol 9 No. 3, 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA. Brenson, Michael, ‘Contemporary Works from Africa’, The New York Times, 19 January 1990, New York, USA. p. 32. Cotter, Holland, ‘American and Nigerian, Side by Side, El Anatsui and Sol Le Witt’, The New York Times, 5 July 1996, New York, USA. Dwyer, G. ‘A Burly North Sea Symposium: Ten Sculptors Create Works on Germany’s Wet Desert’, International Sculpture, 1985, Washington DC, USA. pp. 8-9. Ejiogu, E. ‘African Art in transition’, African Commentary, Amherst, April 1990, USA. pp. 67-68. Houghton, Gerard, ‘Ancestral Voices: El Anatsui’, World Sculpture News, volume 4, Spring 1998, Hong Kong. pp. 32-37 and cover. Jean, J. ‘Taet Pa Fortiden’, Helsingør Dagblad, 1 June 1996, Helsingør, Denmark. p. 25. Jegede, Dele, ‘Exploring Patterns and Forms of Nature’, The Guardian (Lagos), 8 February 1987, Lagos, Nigeria. Koplos, Janet, ‘El Anatsui and Sol Le Witt at Skoto Gallery’, Art in America, January 1997, New York, USA. Leong, Leyla, ‘Duas visoes sobre a Amazonas’, Á Critica, 14 Febrary 1992, Manaus, Brazil. Nwosu, Chinye, ‘Anatsui’s Pieces of Wood’, Lagos Life, 26 Februrary–4 March 1987, Lagos, Nigeria. p. 11. Oguibe, Olu, ‘Beyond Death and Nothingness’, African Arts, Volume 31 No. 1, 1998, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. pp. 48-55. Oguibe, Olu, ‘El Anatsui in the Public Place’, Third Text, Issue 23, Summer 1993, Kala Press, London, UK. pp. 69-77. Oguibe, Olu, ‘Africa Storms the Venice Biennale’, Home News, 7–13 June 1990, London, UK. p. 21. Okeke, Chika, ‘Slashing Wood, Eroding Culture: Conversation with El Anatsui’, NKA The Journal of Contemporary Africa Art, Issue 1, 1994, Johannesburg, South Africa. Oloidi, Ola, ‘Who Are The New African Artists?’, [Aspects of African Spirit], Chrysalis (Journal of the Swedenborg Foundation), Volume 3 Issue 1, New York, USA.
Péri-Willis, Elisabeth, A., ‘El Anatsui at the October Gallery, London’, NKA The Journal of
Contemporary Africa Art, Issue 4, 1996, Johannesburg, South Africa. pp.70-71. Plagens, Peter , ‘Africa meets the West: Three New Exhibitions Capture the Spirit and Struggle of Black Artists on Two Continents’, Newsweek, 19 January 1990, New York, USA. Ro, Eun Nim, ‘On the North Sea Symposium’, Space, Environment, Architecture, Art, Volume 1, 1995, Seoul, South Korea. pp. 15-157. Wallach, Amei, ‘The New African Tradition’, Newsday, 28 January 1990, New York, USA. pp. 1617. Wokoun, Alois, ‘Hradby a Braby Sochare Anatsuiho’, Novy Orient, Volume 44, November 1989, Prague, Czech Republic. pp. 302-305. Selected Bibliography (Books and Exhibition Catalogues)
Africas: The Artist and the City, 2001, Centro de Cultura Contemporania Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain. pp. 94-97. Anatsui, El, ‘Beyond Kpaaza’ (introductory essay) in Uche Okeke: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1993, Nsukka/Lagos ARTGRADS-UNN, Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria. Anatsui, El, ‘Personal Security’ in Biennale de Ceramica dell’ Arte Contemporanea, ,2003, Attese, Milano, Italy. Anatsui, El, Primary Images, A Book of Drawings. In progress. Anatsui, El, Sculptures, Photographs, and Drawings, Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1982, SNAAP Press, Enugu, Nigeria. An Inside Story: African Art of Our Time, 1995, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. pp. 127, 188. Begegnung Mit Den Anderen (Begin With The Others), 1992, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany. Bogatzke, H., et al., Ondambo – An African Art Forum, 2000, Gamsberg-Macmillan, Windhoek, Namibia. pp. 157-165. Configura 2: A Conversation between Obiora Udechukwu and Ulli Beier, Erfurt, Germany, 1995, Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. Container ‘96, København Kulturby Fond ‘96, 1996, Copenhagen, Denmark. pp. 11-12. Eulise, Eriberto, Afriche, Diaspore, Ibridi– Conceptualism as a Strategy in Contemporary African Art, 2003, AIEP Edizione, Bologna, Italy. pp. 182. Fall, N. & Pivin, J. L. (eds.), An Anthology of African Art in the 20th Century, 2002 , Editions Revue Noire, Paris, France. pp. 378-379. Fosu, Kojo, 20th Century Art of Africa, 1986, Gaskiya Corporation, Zaria, Nigeria. pp. 202, 205 and 207-209.
Il Sud Del Mondo (South of the World), Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Italy), 1991, Gabrielle Mazzotta, Milan, Italy. 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. Kasfir, S-L., Contemporary African Art, 1999, Thames & Hudson, London, UK. pp. 17. 189. Kawaguchi, Yukiya, ‘A Fateful Journey’, in El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa, 1998, Saffron Books, (Imprint of Eastern Art Publishing), in conjunction with the October Gallery, London. pp. 5664. Kennedy, Jean, New Currents, Ancient Rivers: Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change, 1992, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA. pp. 17, 19. 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. 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. Kemp, Martin (ed.), The Oxford History of Western Art, 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. p. 488. Klima Global (Arte Amazonas), 1992, Goethe Institute, Brasilia, Brazil. Kwami, Atta, ‘Ghanian Art in a Time of Change’ in Falgyrettes-Leveau, Christiane, and OwusuSarpong, Christiane (eds.), Ghana: Hier et Aujourd’hui, Yesterday and Today, 2003, Musée Dapper, Paris, France. pp. 312-314, 316-317. Marcoci, Roxana, New Art, 1997, Harry N Abrams Inc., New York, USA. Messagers de la Terre, 2000, Rur’ Art– Espace d’Art Contemporain d’Lycée Agricole Xavier Bernard, Rouille, France. 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), in conjunction with the October Gallery, London. pp. 71-78. Oguibe, O. & Enwizor, O. (eds) Reading the Contemporary, African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, 1999, INIVA, London, UK. pp. 156-157, 163-164. Okeke, Chika, ‘The Quest: from Zaria to Nsukka’, in Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa 1995, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. pp. 58-59. 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.
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. The Right to Hope, 1995, Earthscan Publications, London. Udechukwu, Obiora, El Anatsui So Far: Drawings, Paintings, Prints, 1963-1993, 1993, Norbert Åas, Boomerang Press,Bayreuth, Germany. Visona, M. B. et al., A History of Art in Africa, 2001, Hall and Abrams, New York, USA. pp. 226227. XLIV Expositione Internazionale d’Arte : La Biennale di Venezia , 1990, Fabbri Editori, Venice. Zweites Symposium Nordseeküste, Künstler vor dem Deich, 1984, Cuxhaven, Germany.
