William Kentridge and Peter Galison, 2012. The Refusal of Time / Die Ablehnung der Zeit, notebook published for Documenta 13, 2012. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.
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A projection on a ceiling. Audience members can see the images leaning their heads back, looking up; or look down into small mirrors they each hold. The archive of images held in the air can be brought down to the … View…
Wits Art Museum, 18 November 2015 – 14 December 2015The tapestries woven after William Kentridge’s designs looked custom-made for the Wits Art Museum. The elegantly minimalist gallery preserved something of the objects’ place of birth, so that “what happened … View…
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 … View…
2010 to 2019
2010
LIFE
Establishes second, larger studio at Arts on Main precinct in central Johannesburg, used mainly for larger sculptural work and performance workshops
WORK
Creates Carnets d’Egypte, two cycles of films titled Carnets d’Egypte (Salle 26)… View…
Extracts from Footnotes for the Panther, Conversations between William Kentridge and Denis Hirson. Kentridge, William and Denis Hirson. Johannesburg, Fourth Wall. 2017.
DH: Could you say something about how it was that you came to work in charcoal? WK… View…
Roman Heads. The title comes from looking at some Roman busts, or portrait sculptures. This done with a view to finding images for the Triumphs & Laments project for the Tiber River in Rome. At the moment all that remains … View…
Introductory essay toWilliam Kentridge, book prepared on the occasion of the exhibition William Kentridge at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, 10 January to 29 February 2004; K20 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 27 March to … View…
Guido: “My dear Zeno, I am the most intelligent man in Trieste. You are the fifth most intelligent. Positions two, three, and four are vacant.”When I first read Italo Svevo’s Confessions of Zeno some twenty years ago, one of … View…
Introductory essay toWilliam Kentridge, book prepared on the occasion of the exhibition William Kentridge at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, 15 May to 23 August 1998; Kunstverein München, 28 August to 11 October 1998; Neue Galerie … View…
I wanted to show a shredding machine on stage. But a real machine, noisily and slowly going through reams of paper, did not seem very remarkable. We thought of using a bread-slicer instead, as a metaphor, but were daunted by … View…