Jennifer Angus and El Anatsui master in providing miscellaneous recycled items with an artistic dimension. Featured at the Berger Arts Center, their respective collections highlight nature and vintage African textiles. Where the former empathizes with the world of insects, the latter allows one to explore the refined visual African texture. The collection vocally submits a suggestion to reduce our needs and reuse stuff that we usually discard.
Jennifer Angus sees beauty in the otherwise terrible natural world. Ranging from beetles, grasshoppers to cicadas, her art lends them certain decorum as she creates arresting wallpaper patterns out of them. Just have a look at these incredible showstoppers:
Contrary to it, El Anatsui asks us to go back in time and analyze the richness of African textural art. In adding an element of exclusivity to her blinged curtain dubbed ‘Depletion’, he shows how recycled goes stylish. The same goes for his outsized cloak ‘Dusasa I’:
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