El Anatsui

El Anatsui mashahurin mai sassaƙa ne na duniya wanda keɓaɓɓen kayan masarufi da ban sha'awa ya burge masu sauraro a duk duniya. Ya shahara saboda amfani da kayan da aka jefar da su, musamman ma kwalabe, wadanda ya ke hada su da kyau don samar da manyan kaset. Ayyukan zane-zane na Anatsui suna ƙalubalantar ra'ayoyin al'ada na sassaka da bincika jigogi na amfani, haɗin kai, da kuma asalin Afirka. An baje kolin aikinsa a manyan gidajen tarihi da gidajen tarihi a duniya, wanda ya ba shi yabo da karramawa.

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An haifi El Anatsui a Anyko, a yankin Volta na Ghana. Karan cikin ’ya’yan ubansa 32, Anatsui ya rasa mahaifiyarsa kuma kawunsa ya rene shi. Kwarewarsa ta farko game da fasaha shine ta hanyar zana haruffa akan allo. Ya yi horo a Kwalejin Fasaha, Jami'ar Kimiyya da Fasaha, da ke Kumasi a tsakiyar Ghana. Ɗaya daga cikin tasirinsa na farko shine sculptor Vincent Akwete Kofi.

Aikinsa na sassaka da sassaƙa itace ya fara ne a matsayin abin sha'awa don raya al'adun da ya girma da su. Ya fara koyarwa a Jami’ar Najeriya, Nsukka, a shekarar 1975, kuma ya kasance mai alaka da kungiyar Nsukka.

An ɗauki shekaru da yawa don nemo masu fasaha waɗanda za su iya mamaye fitaccen wuri a kewayen duniya yayin zabar zama a wajen manyan biranen. William Kentridge ya yi suna daga Johannesburg, kuma El Anatsui ya mamaye duniya yayin da yake zaune yana aiki a garin Nsukka na jami'ar Najeriya.

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Tufafin Mutum (1998–2001) a Gidan Tarihi na Biritaniya a 2009 Aikin Anatsui ya karu a hankali, tun daga kauyensu na Nsukka kafin ya koma wurare irin su Enugu da Legas, daga karshe ya koma kasashen duniya. A cikin 1990, Anatsui ya sami wasan kwaikwayo na farko mai mahimmanci a gidan kayan tarihi na Studio a Harlem, New York. Ya kuma kasance daya daga cikin masu fasaha uku da aka ware a baje kolin "Mawakan Afirka na Zamani: Canjin Al'adu" na 1990.