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  • ... character Soho Eckstein, a broad-shouldered, white South African industrialist whose self-assured place in the world has been... oppressor and the oppressed in reference to South Africa's apartheid era, which lasted from 1948 to 1994. Kentridge has said of...
  • ... confronted on the same screen. The first shows the bodies of African dancers in exultant movements, gradually moving into a trance....
  • ... the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed work has made him one of the most...
  • ... as well as performers, dancers and people linked to African-American rituals showing a relationship between art,...
  • Borderroad -
    ... Here approximately 20 kilometres of border separate the African continent from the EU. The aluminium tableau 'Borderroad' was...
  • DesConcerto -
    ... streets. It starts with a public concert of Philip Glass, an African musician in the old square of the World Trade Center, followed...
  • ... films of charcoal drawings, the internationally renowned South African artist also works in etching, collage, sculpture, and the... contemporary art scene. Dealing with subjects as sobering as apartheid and colonialism, Kentridge often imbues his art with dreamy,...
  • Heliotrope -
    ... born author. His works often featured the extreme north African sun as a symbol for the futility of any attempt to interpret...
  • ... that gripped South Africa in the immediate post-apartheid period, during which the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...