El Anatsui - Press - Publication

Selected Bibliography (Journals)

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', Th International Review of African American Art, Vol. 9 No. 3, 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Barley, Nigel, 'Africa's New Spirit', The World of Interiors, London, March,2005. pp 152-155

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 LeWitt', The New York Times, 5 July 1996, New York, USA.

Cotter, Holland, ‘Visions of a Continent That is Rich with Life’, The New York Times, 25 November 2005, 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.

Hemmings, Jessica, El Anatsui: Forging Fabrics of Tin, Surface Design Journal, London, Summer 2005,pp 36-39

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 The Patterns and Forms of Nature', The Guardian (Lagos), 8 February 1987, Lagos, Nigeria.

Koplos, Janet, 'El Anatsui and Sol LeWitt at Skoto Gallery', Art in America, January 1997, New York, USA.

Leong, Leyla, 'Duas visoes sobre a Amazonas', A Critica, 14 February 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, New York. pp. 34-40.

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-Wlllls, Elisabeth, A., 'EI Anatsui at the October Gallery, London', NKA The Journal of Contemporary Africa Art, Issue 4, 1996, New York. 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.

Preece, Robert, 'Out of Africa: A conversation with El Anatsui ' Sculpture,  International Sculpture Center, Washington DC, July/August 2006,vol 25 no 6, pp34-39

Ro, Eun Nim, 'On the North Sea Symposium', Space, Environment, Architecture, Art, Volume 1, 1995, Seoul, South Korea. pp. 15-17.

Rubinstein, Raphael, 'Full-Metal Fabrics', Art in America, New York, May, 2006, pp158-161, 200.

Wallach, Amei, 'The New African Tradition', Newsday, 28 January 1990, New York, USA. pp.16-17.

Wokoun, Alois, 'Hradby a Brany 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, (catalogue to accompany the exhibition of the same name), 2001,   

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain. pp .94-97.

Anatsui, El, 'Personal Security'  Biennale de Ceramica nell' Arte Contemporanea, (catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name, Villa Groppallo, Vado ligure, italy), 2003, Attese, Milan, Italy.

Anatsui, El, 'The Vulture and the Angel: Contemporary African Art and Western Art Criticism' [with reference to the 2000 Dakar Biennale], presented at Barcelona Talks, 1 June 2001, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain.

Anatsui, El, 'Beyond Kpaaza' (Introductory essay) in Uche Okeke: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1993, Nsukka/Lagos ARTGRADS-UNN, Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria.

Anatsui, El, 'Three Decades, Three Motifs', Introductory essay in So Far, a catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of Drawings, Paintings and Prints by Obiora Udechukwu 1963-1993, 1993, Norbert Aas, Boomerang Press, Bayreuth, Germany.

Anatsui, El, Sculptures. Photographs, and Drawings, (catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Goethe Institut, Lagos), 1982, SNAAP Press, Enugu, Nigeria.

An Inside Story: African Art of Our Time, (catalogue to accompany the touring exhibition of the same name), 1995. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. pp.127, 188