1.6K views · 31 reactions | After a multi-year renovation, ​The Clowes Pavilion Reimaged will open next week, exactly 50 years after its inauguration in 1972. Take a behind the scenes look at the installation of El Anatsui's piece, Duvor. #DiscoverNewfields . . . El Anatsui (Ghanaian, b. 1944), Duvor (communal cloth), 2007, aluminum, copper wire, 13 × 17 ft. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Ann M. Stack Fund for Contemporary Art, 2007.25 © El Anatsui. | Newfields | Facebook

Step into the Turbine Hall and let your gaze be lifted upwards - El Anatsui's monumental Behind The Red Moon sculpture invites you to embark on a three-part journey of light, colour and movement. Up close, this large scale installation made of bottle tops tell stories of global connections, the alcohol trade, and African-European histories. From a distance, the clinking metals form landscapes - waves, moon, earth and sky. On display until April 2024. https://bit.ly/46UimIe | Tate

El Anatsui creates sculptures made from bottle caps, a found material from discarded liquor bottles. “What are bottle caps? Liquor. How did liquor come into my culture and what does it mean,” asks the artist in our Season 6 “Change” episode. “When the European traders came to Africa for the first time, they brought things like drink. Because, eventually, drinks were exchanged for slaves.” Season 6 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” is available on YouTube for the first time ever. New episode s

195K views · 4.6K reactions | Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui transforms...