William Kentridge
As politically engaged as they are expressive, lyrical and poetic, Kentridge creates works ranging from prints, drawings, video work and sculpture in order to investigate pre- and post-apartheid South Africa. Often possessing an autobiographical quality, a work by Kentridge analyses his life in apartheid South Africa as a white Jewish male and his relationship to the suffering that was occurring around him by the black South African majority. William Kentridge is perhaps most known for his practice of creating and then erasing charcoal drawings, all the while recording the entire process.
Selected Exhibitions
2017
Performa, New York, Performa 17
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, William Kentridge: O
Sentimental Machine
2016
Whitechapel Gallery, London, William Kentridge: Thick Time
Lia Rumma, Milan, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE - Triumphs,
Laments and other Processions
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, William Kentridge: Notes
Towards a Model Opera
2015
BAM, Brooklyn, Refuse the Hour
EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam, William Kentridge - If We Ever Get to Heaven
2014
Lia Rumma, Napoli, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
2012
Lia Rumma, Napoli, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
"Sketches for a Neapolitan mosaic"
2011
Lia Rumma, Milan, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
Collections
ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg, Austria
T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Hiscox Art Projects, London (England), United Kingdom
Royal College of Art Galleries, London (Englan, United Kingdom
Tate Britain, London (England), United Kingdom
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England) United Kingdom
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York Ci