William Kentridge

“The public fascination for Kentridge’s work is evidence of his desire as an artist to engage with the world through art and to find an appropriate voice for the artist in the political arena.” Elizabeth Ann Macgregor South African artist William Kentridge is considered one of the most significant contemporary artists working today. His drawings and animated films present a uniquely evocative view of the state of South Africa, his haunting imagery hinting at how political realities impact on individual lives. While Kentridge’s primary activity remains drawing, his career has moved between film, drawing, theatre, sculpture and installation. He has gained international recognition for his distinctive animated short films, which are painstakingly constructed through a process of erasing and redrawing each phase of movement and for his charcoal drawings based on a similar ‘erasure’ technique. Organised by the Castello di Rivoli, Italy, this exhibition presents key drawings, paintings, and sculptures from Kentridge’s career, with a particular focus on recent works including Sleeping on Glass (1999), Shadow Procession (1999), and Zeno at 4 p.m. (2002). The artist has also created a new animated film for the exhibition which revisits the character Soho Eckstein, seen in earlier works such as Mine (1991) and History of the Main Complaint (1996).

William Kentridge is organised by the Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Art Contemporanea, Rivoli – Torino. The exhibition is curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakagiev. Pressetext

William Kentridge