Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui (Art on Film Series), Q & A with Director Susan Vogel

Members of the Katonah Museum of Art, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Hudson River Museum, Neuberger Museum, Storm King Art Center, and WFUV: Bring your membership cards and receive the JBFC member discount for two tickets to each program in this series.

In the Art on Film Series, from the Jacob Burns Center:

Fold Crumple Crush:  The Art of El Anatsui

“Engaging, informative, and sensitive.” (Intelligent Life)

The sumptuous wall hangings of Ghanaian-born artist El Anatsui look like ancient maps or tapestries woven of silk and gold. But they are wrought of bottle tops, pieces of cans, and other metal scraps, pounded, reshaped, and sewn together into spectacular sculptured sheets. Fold Crumple Crush moves elegantly among El Anatsui’s many spheres—from the Venice Biennale to his dusty Nigerian city.

Q&A Susan Vogel, director/producer (with her company Prince Street Pictures), was Founding Director of the Museum for African Art, and a curator for the Metropolitan Museum's Rockefeller Collection. Until January 2010, she was Professor of African Art and Architecture at Columbia University.

Susan Vogel. 2011. 53 m. NR. US/Italy/Nigeria. Prince Street Pictures.