"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
Bleeding Takari (2008)
Bleeding Takari, 2008
Aluminum and copper wire; 61 x 89 1/2 inches
Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Gift of Donald L. Bryant, Jr. and Jerry Speyer, 201.2008
Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
© El Anatsui
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