El Anatsui: Prints and Play
El Anatsui, Untitled, 2025
Untitled, 2025, El Anatsui. Color woodcut (laser cut), 46 × 62 in. (116.8 × 157.5 cm). Printer: Alexis Nutini. Printed and published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia. · press.philamuseum.org
El Anatsui: Prints and Play opens at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States, on December 19, 2026 and runs to May 2, 2027.
Last verified September 23, 2026 · Official source ↗
The first comprehensive museum survey of prints by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, best known for large-scale sculptures and installations made from discarded materials such as aluminum bottle caps, wooden market trays and metal cassava graters. The exhibition shows how he carries those nontraditional materials and techniques into printmaking to push the boundaries of the medium.
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- Philadelphia Museum of ArtPhiladelphia, United States · December 19, 2026 – May 2, 2027Opens 19 Dec
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El Anatsui, Untitled, 2025
Untitled, 2025, El Anatsui. Color woodcut (laser cut), 46 × 62 in. (116.8 × 157.5 cm). Printer: Alexis Nutini. Printed and published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia. · press.philamuseum.org · Source ↗