El Anatsui awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture

“The Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, given this year to El Anatsui, is a tremendous acknowledgment of the career record of one of the most critically acclaimed sculptors working in the global contemporary art scene today. For nearly fifty years, Anatsui insistently demonstrated an unflinching commitment to formal innovation by constantly questioning and re-imagining established languages and processes of sculpture. In this time, he has produced an extensive body of work that is at once intriguing, profound, inventive, polysemic, spectacular and epic.”

CHIKA O. OKEKE-AGULU, M.F.A., Ph.D.
Princeton University