El Anatsui's Installation @ MoMA

Make time to see El Anatsui's Installation @ MoMA, Bleeding Takeri II.  You will discover it in its own room on the 2nd floor behind the Oldenberg/Guy structures.  The sombre beauty of Anatsui's work will captivate you.  Then it will give you pause to reflect on a much deeper level, what his work represents. Takeri II resembles a tapestry welded together from scrap metal & bottle caps.  It is mounted to give it a kinetic & pliable effect.  Anatsui says that its appearance varies depending on how the piece is installed.  The word Takeri, according to Anatsui is a "fictional name."  The use of bottle caps represents the "material which was there at the beginning of the contact between the two continents," {African & European.}  Alcohol being the key commodity of trade.  Takeri II undulates with a fluidity of red which resonates as flowing blood.  It is a beautiful & powerful work of art.