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  • 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 undertones...
  • William Kentridge -
    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...
  • Mit der Präsentation neuer Arbeiten – Zeichnungen, Drucke, Stereoskopien und einer 8-minütigen filmischen Anamorphose – schließt William Kentridge sein Engagement als erster Inhaber der Max-Beckmann-Stiftungsprofessur in Frankfurt ab.

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  • Event: Fragments for Georges Méliès, Black Box / Chambre NoirInstitution: Moderna MuseetComment:
  • The Magic Flute -
    On view will be fifty working drawings and fragments used in the creation of the scenic design and animation for The Magic Flute, the Mozart opera given brilliant interpretation by William Kentridge in a long-awaited production this past spring...
  • The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK), is pleased to announce on the behalf of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) and the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima MOCA) the upcoming exhibition, William...
  • Seeing Double -
    The exhibition is structured primarily around the discourse of vision and optics and centered around a new eight-minute anamorphic film, titled What Will Come (2006), which takes its title from a Ghanaian proverb: "What will come has already come."

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  • 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...
  • Survey of Prints -
    In 2003 the Museum purchased Atlas Procession I, a print by William Kentridge, the first work by this internationally renowned South African artist in the SCMA collection. This fall, Kentridge is the subject of a major exhibition at SCMA, William...
  • 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 sich...