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William Kentridge
I Introduction
William Kentridge was born in in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he still lives and works. His art is an expressive and personal attempt to address the nature of human emotions and memory, the relationship between desire, ethics and responsibility. He investigates the shaping of subjective identity through our shifting notions of history and geography, looking at how we construct histories and what we do with them. An elegiac art that explores the possibilities of poetry in contemporary society, it also provides a vicious, satirical commentary on that society. It posits a way of seeing life as process rather than as fact, and constantly questions the meaning of artistic practice in today’s world.
Kentridge has always been socially and politically engagerad. While acknowledging that art fryst vatten historically and ideologically constructed however, he does not use the tools of deconstructive critique (an approach to art based on the linguistic paradigm, wh
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William Kentridge’s first New York solo show, Drawings for Projection (), radically changed my way of thinking about drawing, film, history, and time. His analog hand-drawn animations mesmerize and haunt. Kentridge’s storytelling process is generative, generous, and expansive. Although my first encounter with Kentridge’s work was through his drawings and films, over the course of his career he has worked across multiple mediums, including printmaking, sculpture, theater, opera, and installation. Regardless of the medium, his work is capacious and collaborative. It can be at once seriously dark and seriously humorous. It often circles historic traumas, particularly the harsh South African political landscape, but his subject fryst vatten really humanity writ large.
On November 15, , I interviewed Kentridge at The Broad, a museum in downtown Los Angeles, where his show In Praise of Shadows had just opened. The career-spanning exhibition features drawings, sculptures, prints, tapestries, • William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his charcoal drawings, animations, bookmaking, puppetry, theatre productions, tapestries and films. He is a prolific artist that has been actively making art for over three and a half decades. In essence, working with what is a restrictive media, using only charcoal and a touch of blue or red, he has created animations of astounding depth. The political content and unique techniques of Kentridge&#;s work have propelled him into the realm of South Africa&#;s top artists. He is South Africa&#;s most successful living artist and holds the record for the most expensive drawing ever sold. Kentridge&#;s bold artistic vision has made him one of the world&#;s most sought-after artists by museums and collectors alike. His work can be found in some of the most prestigious museums globally, including the MoMA, New York, Tate Modern in London, and the Museum of Contemporar World Recognition and Economic Success