El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, a Retrospective at Kunstmuseum Bern
07 Jul 2020
The exhibition “Triumphant Scale” at Kunstmuseum Bern features El Anatsui's signature liquor bottle cap series, but also includes his early circular plates, wooden sculptures and wall reliefs, ceramic sculptures, and a variety of drawings, sketches and prints. Thus, “Triumphant Scale” is a retrospective that spans El Anatsui's works and media from the mid-1970s to today.
This video is a tour of the exhibition by rooms and groups of works and an introduction by Kathleen Bühler, the curator of the Kunstmuseum Bern. Kathleen Bühler talks about how the show came about, El Anatsui's background, how his work evolved over time and why, both the political and the aesthetic aspect of his work, and how the exhibition is received by the visitors.
