El Anatsui

**El Anatsui** (;  nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi so silimiingoli  February dabaanahi dali yuuni  1944 ni,  o nyɛla Ghana bilchini ŋun nucheeni tuun shɛli silimiingi ni bɔli ni  sculptor la, ka o kuli bɔri o tuma zoobu polo  Nigeria tingban ni. O nyɛla ŋun va solo pam hankali duniya yaangi zuɣu,  ka di chaŋ mi ti jendi o baŋsim parigu din silimiingi ni boli shɛli ni "bottle-top installations" la. O lala tuma ŋɔ nyɛla din mali  aluminum charichari din ni ni apataashi labi tiligi tuma shɛhi, ka di lan chani ni kupa waya nima,  ka o zaŋdi ŋa nim zaa n nyɛla m mɛri o tuma maa. Lala nima nim ŋɔ balim mini di bɛhisi nyɛla din too chɛ ka o mali li n tumdi o tuma maa pam.

Anatsui nyɛla ŋun nuu daai pahi yuuni  2023  Time 100 ban yuya du duniya yaagizuɣu la .

## O pilli mini shikuru chandi

El Anatsui nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni Anyako n be  Volta Region din be  Ghana tingbani la. Ŋuni n daa nyɛ o ba bihi pihita ni ayi puuni bia, Anatsui daa nyɛla ŋun koŋ o ma ka o ŋahibi daa nyɛ ŋun wumsi o. O tuuli taha zaŋkpa nucheeni tuma polo nyɛmi o daa pili mi n boori binyɛra n pari dukpuna zuɣu ni bɛ ni sabiri pariba binshɛɣu zuɣu shikuru ni. O lala subbu subbu ŋɔ niŋbu nyɛla din daa voogi o shikuru karimba kpem hanŋkali, ŋu nin daa kpaŋsi o n ti o binsabira maa shɛŋa n pahi. O yuma ni saha shɛli o ni daa kuli naaɣi o tuuli bilim ni shikuru maa,  o daa ŋun daa nyɛrila bachi koba la anfooni nima ka ni lala lihigu maa niŋ o nyɛɣisim pam.

Anatsui daa deela B.A shɛhira gbaŋ yuuni 1968,  College of Art and Built Environment (KNUST) din be Kumasi, Ghana ka o daa deei li. O daa lahi deei Art Education yuuni din daa doli o naabu yuuni na, yuuni 1969,  Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) ka o daa deei li, di gba bela Kumasi.

O tuula o ni daa lihiri nucheeni tuun tumdi bɛ shabi ka o ni nyamdi shabi n nyɛ Oku Ampofo, Vincent Akwete Kofi, n ti pahi Kofi Antubam, ban boŋo zaa nyɛla ban daa zaɣisiri tinduya ni tuma nim bɛ tuma nim shɛhi ni di kpaŋsi bɛ mamaŋ dundoŋ ni kali ni taada din jendi nucheeni tuma polo. O ni daa naagi shikuru yuuni  1969 ni,  Anatsui daa niŋ la chicha kore shikuru din yuli booni  Winneba Specialist Training College saha ŋɔ din pa nyɛ  University of Educationla ni, yaɣi shɛli din daa pun nyɛ nucheeni baŋdi so daa beni ka o yuli booni  Kofi.

O daa nyɛla ŋun pili wuhiri shikuru din yuli nyɛ  University of Nigeria, Nsukka yuuni 1975 ni. O daa nyɛla ŋun lee karim ba nim ban daa be nucheeni baŋsim bɔbu yaɣili din yuli booni Fine and Applied Arts department kpema yuuni 1982 ni, ka daa dɔli nyaangi na nti lee lala bɔhimbu yaɣili maa zuɣu lana ka daa lan nyɛ ŋun pa mali o nucheeni tuma maa yaɣili  maa baŋsim kam yuuni  2011 ni. O dabisa niŋ bu shikuru din yuli booni University of Nsukka nyɛla din che ka o ti pahiri  Nsukka zuliya maani.Di nyɛla din zaŋ yuma pam ni di Kuli nyɛ nucheeni tuun tumdi ŋun yan zali yuli duniya yaɣishɛli poli o ni bɛ bɛni gba . William Kentridge nyɛla ŋun bɔhim o tuma la  Johannesburg sani, ka  El Anatsui mi nyɛ ŋun ʒiri duniya zaa ka na nyɛ ŋun wuhiri shikuru din yuli bokni  Nigerian university din be yaɣili din yuli booni Nsukka la ni.

## Nucheeni tuma
Anatsui mini ni, bɛ bikura  shikuru chandi saha, ni bɛ ni daa kuli niŋdi binshɛɣu kanm daa kuli nyɛla din nyɛ tinduya ni tuma, di bahi bahindila o nucheeni yaɣili din yuli booni fine arts department o ni daa wuhiri university shɛli maa puuni.  

Kpaŋmaŋ pina nim shɛŋa yaha
* 1990 – Public Prize, 7th Annual Triennale der Kleinplastik
* 1995 – Kansai Telecasting Prize, 6th Osaka Sculpture Triennial
* 1998 – Bronze Prize, 9th Osaka Sculpture Triennial
* 2008 – Visionaries! Award, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
* 2009 – Prince Claus Award
* 2009 – Artist Honoree, 30th Anniversary Celebration, National Museum of African Art
* 2016 – Honorary doctorate, Harvard University
*2017 – Honorary doctorate, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
* 2023 – *[[Time 100]]*
* 2024 – Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Bard College

## Nyami yaha
*Big 4 (statue)

## Kundivihira

## Karim pahi
*  "EL Anatsui, Tsiatsia", *[[:fr:Le Delarge|Le Delarge]]*, read online.
* "El Anatsui (born 1944), Sculptor", *[[Benezit Dictionary of Artists]]*, read online, .
* Anatsui, El and Laura Leffler James, "Convergence: History, Materials, and the Human Hand--An Interview with El Anatsui," *Art Journal*, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 36-53, read online
* Binder, Lisa M., "Anatsui, El (born 1944), sculptor", *Grove Art Online*, read online, .
* Binder, Lisa M., "El Anatsui: Transformations," *African Arts* Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 24-37, read online
* Chilvers, Ian and John Glaves-Smith, "Anatsui, El (1944–)", *A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art*, read online, .
* Enwezor, Okwui and Chika Okeke-Agulu, *El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture*, Damiani, 2022 https://www.damianibooks.com/products/6208763 
* Gayer, J. (2008). El Anatsui : Gawu. Espace, (86), 39–40. id.erudit.org/iderudit/9058ac
* Jennifer, Anne Hart, "El Anatsui (1944)", *Dictionary of African Biography*, read online, .
* LaGamme, Alisa, "The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design without End," *African Arts* Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring, 2009), pp. 88-99, read online
* Oguibe, Olu. "El Anatsui: Beyond Death and Nothingness", *African Arts,* Vol.31, No.1 (1988), pp.&nbsp;48–55+96, El Anatsui: Beyond Death and Nothingness
* Ottenberg, Simon, *New Traditions from Nigeria: Seven Artists of the Nsukka group*, Smithsonian Institution Press 1997, 
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## External links
* El-Anatsui.com
* "El Anatsui" at Praemium Imperiale.
* QuickTime Virtual Reality Image of "Akua's Surviving Children" at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, by Jonathan Greet
* Doug Britt, "El Anatsui lets chance, collaboration into his work" , *Houston Chronicle*, 25 January 2010.
* Inception Gallery Contemporary Art 
* El Anatsui piece at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
* "El Anatsui", Art21. (n.d.). Retrieved 8 December 2016.
* 'The Installation of El Anatsui's "Dusasa l" (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art). Retrieved 17 January 2017.