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South African artist William Kentridge has garnered international fame and admiration for performance, sculpture, drawings, and work in many other media, but his most indelible contribution is in animated film. Kentridge makes large-scale charcoal

William Kentridge, a native of Johannesburg (b. 1955), is an internationally acclaimed artist whose multimedia works present an arresting and forceful commentary on the contemporary cultural and sociopolitical issues in South Africa. Inspired by

Though William Kentridge is one of the most compelling interdisciplinary artists of our time, five years ago he was largely unknown outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was born in 1955 and continues to live today. There were many reasons

Die bereits vor zwei Jahren konzipierte Ausstellung von William Kentridge hätte im Vorjahr in der Neuen Galerie Graz gezeigt werden sollen, was jedoch aufgrund des verzögerten Umbaus der Neuen Galerie nicht möglich war. William Kentridge war

The ensemble, this catalogue and the exhibition document the rich production of work by William Kentridge (Johannesburg, 1955), and especially show that each one of his activities are a way of returning to the act of drawing, an act the artist has

ncisively political and profoundly poetic, William Kentridge's protean artistic investigation continues in his beautiful series of tapestries begun in 2001. The tapestries stem from a series of drawings in which he conjured shadowy figures from

Black Box / Chambre Noire konzipierte William Kentridge speziell für die Reihe der Auftragsarbeiten des Deutsche Guggenheim und wählte daher inhaltlich bewusst Deutschland, das Land des Auftraggebers, als Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit. Kentridge, der

Combining the political with the poetic, William Kentridge's work has made an indelible mark on the contemporary art scene. Dealing with subjects as sobering as apartheid and colonialism, Kentridge often imbues his art with dreamy, lyrical

Artist and filmmaker William Kentridge has earned international acclaim for creating distinctive animated films that address the political and cultural climate of his native South Africa. In Tide Table (recently acquired by The Rose), the artist