El Anatsui al Metropolitan Museum of Art. Un ponte fra tradizione e contemporaneità.

In the last few years there has been an increasing tendency for institutions generally associated with 'classical' or 'tribal' art to approach contemporary art. This article examines the installation of the contemporary African artwork of El Anatsui - a Ghanaian artist, living in Nigeria - at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The installation highlighted the relation between itself and the museum's permanent exhibition on African Arts. This bridge also allows us to think about (or to reflect on) the idea of tradition, the concept of 'readymade', and the construction of memory as 'human agency' in ethnographical museum.