Current Events
Forthcoming Events
A sporadic record of what happens in the studio, in video, words and images
“Oh To Believe in Another World”, an exhibition of new drawings, sculptures, prints and a new five channel film installation, opens ...
Installation views showing the film “Ubu Tells the Truth” (1997), in situ wall drawings in charcoal (2022) and drawing fragments in black ...
Installation views of the films "City Deep" (2020), "Tide Table" (2003), "Other Faces” (2011), “Monument” (1990) and ...
OPENING TOMORROW
William Kentridge
Royal Academy of Arts, London
24 September - 11 December 2022
“Action”, 2019
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“Spartan / Isando”, 1988
Charcoal and pastel on paper
120 x 160 cm
Part of the forthcoming exhibition, “William Kentridge” at...
“The idea was to film what happened in the studio, showing the improbabilities, the paradoxes, the uncertainties, the doubts, and even the stupidity...
Idiosyncratic lines of enquiry into particular aspects of studio practice or bodies of work
Listening to the Trees
An anecdotal account of the making of the book “Waiting for the Sibyl” and a consideration of Kentridge’s ongoing series of tree drawings, by book designer Oliver Barstow
9 WORDS and one more
Making art is a uniquely human endeavour and an artist, the maker of art, is someone who distills what they feel and think about the world and expresses this visually. This requires one to read, to see, to listen, to feel, to question and be curious; to know, and yet to doubt; to have humility and to be brave.
All so different from what you expected
Things which are obvious in studio practice, like uncertainty, doubt, provisionality, are not about the COVID pandemic. They are themes I have worked on for many years – but these themes in the outside world have become much more present in these months.
Cursive
Cursive is the third set in a series of small bronze glyphs, following “Lexicon” (2017) and “Paragraph II” (2018). The glyphs started as a collection of ink drawings and paper cut-outs, each on a single page from a dictionary.
Edifice
This collection of drawings, made for the films “Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old”, “Stereoscope”, “Tide Table”, “Other Faces”, “City Deep” and “What will come, has already come”, focuses on Kentridge’s use of architecture in order to establish place within the narrative of his films.
