El Anatsui's Metal Tapestry

Retrospective El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa was on view from September 9, 2012 to January 6, 2013.

Organized by the Museum for African Art in New York (MfAA), it was the first retrospective of the African artist El Anatsui’s work.
“El Anatsui has been writing to us about Africa for a very long time,” said exhibition curator Lisa Binder of the MfAA.
“For over four decades he has created drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures and installations that convey histories both personal and universal. Each work has its own story to tell, though, when seen together, they relate to each other like words in a sentence.”
“I don’t see what I do as recycling: I transform the caps into something else, Rather than recounting history, my art is telling about what history has provoked.”Anatsui says.