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El Anatsui“Striped Flags”
By El Anatsui
“Striped Flags” is made of paper, printed and hand-cut and hand-sculpted aluminum collage, and copper wire. It is imbued with vibrancy, and exemplifies the artist’s internationally acclaimed sculpture with its dazzlingly intricate composition that is comprised of a variety of organic and geometric shapes, such as rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, and rhombi. These shapes, which are a collection of bold colors – bright green, red, crimson, yellow, blue, and marigold, and others that are close to the pale yellow of wheat, are occasionally filled with either parallel or intersecting lines and the script of multiple typefaces. Although the grid format that is so typical in minimalist art is clearly evident in “Striped Flags”, the project also evokes analytical cubism.
