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El Anatsui“Paper and Silver”
By El Anatsui
“Paper and Silver” is made of paper, printed and hand-cut and hand-sculpted aluminum collage, and copper wire. In monochrome groupings of achromatic colors and strands of complex geometric scaffolding composed of vibrant red, yellow, gold, and blue, a dazzling array of formats and elements from the artist’s bottle cap palette make up the composition of the project. Correspondingly varied in “Paper and Silver” is the aluminum collage; whereas the printed metal is flattened in some areas, it is folded and twisted and knotted in others.
