Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon

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Tate Modern exhibition: 10 October 2023 - 14 April 2024
El Anatsui's Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal liquor bottle tops and fragments. Crumpling, crushing, and stitching them into different compositions, large panels are pieced together to form massive abstract fields of colour, shape and line. The work builds on Anatsui's interest in histories of encounter and the migration of goods and people during the transatlantic slave trade.

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Osei Bonsu is Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, where he is responsible for organising exhibitions, developing the museums collection and broadening the representation of artists from Africa and the African diaspora. In 2020, he was named as one of Apollo Magazines 40 under 40 leading African voices. Bronwyn Katz is an artist, and a protge of El Anatsui during 20234 through the Rolex Mentor and Protg Arts Initiative. Julian Lucas is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Kobena Mercer is a British art historian and writer on contemporary art and visual culture. Kwame Mintah is co-founder of Efie Gallery. Olu Oguibe is an artist.