Nearly two-thirds of The Broad’s collection galleries have a fresh look this fall, with more than 30 works brought out of the vault. The reinstallation includes pairings of works by Cindy Sherman and John Baldessari, Urs Fischer and Jonas Wood, Anselm Kiefer and Kara Walker, Philip Taaffe and El Anatsui, along with changes in the Takashi Murakami gallery and much more throughout the third floor.
El Anatsui’s large-scale works are especially notable:
Anatsui’s beautiful quilts of silver and dull gold transcend their materials to become a metaphor for shifting contexts and images of Africa. Embedded in the metal fragments are multiple histories and influences, ranging from the effects of the colonial period on Africa to current problems facing its people, including alcoholism, pervasive poverty, and the impact of global markets on the continent’s economies. Anatsui’s work also carries a poetic import. Critic Holland Cotter describes the pieces as reflections of “an African essence of three interchangeable parts always in motion: memory, reality, determination.”
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