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 South African artist William Kentridge produces works that exist somewhere between film, drawing and theater and sometimes as a combination of all three. Kentridge's drawings and stop-motion videos often have a subtle but reflectively political undertone, investigating the cultural dualities of South Africa and the artist's birth city of Johannesburg. Using the reductive medium of charcoal with only a small amount of blue or red chalk, Kentridge is effectively able to portray narratives while allowing the drawing process to be revealed by erasing and redrawing the object on the same sheet of paper. Since the late nineties, Kentridge has exhibited with museums worldwide. In 2004, the Metropolitan Museum in New York presented a solo show of the artist's work, which was followed by a premiere of Mozart's Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) in 2005 at the Theatre de La Monnaie in Brussels, with Kentridge as the director. The artist had perhaps his largest exhibition to date at the Musee d'art Contemporain in Montreal, and he received a project commission from the Deutsche Bank Guggenheim in Berlin the same year. Posted by Seth Curcio at May 4, 2007 12:00 AM | Permalink | E-mail This | |||
Join the discussion:William Kentridge is amazing. His animations are clever, and contain the process of his drawing technique unlike traditional cell animation which hides the process. ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: Mike | May 4, 2007 09:08 AM if Kentridge was close by, i'd shake his hand right now in celebration of the piece above and say: "this is how my job makes me feel. thanks for expressing it." ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: justin | May 4, 2007 09:38 AM he has a show right now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled "tapestries" and it is absolutely amazing. ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: chris | April 16, 2008 03:35 AM |
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