William Kentridge at artcritical
“HUBS” is a new category on artists and subjects discussed multiple times at artcritical
“HUBS” is a new category on artists and subjects discussed multiple times at artcritical
“He works with archaic materials using self-imposed limitations”
The artists gave lectures at the Jerusalem Studio School and the Israel Museum
Where should we locate Kentridge’s sequential, continuous drawing within the eye-popping history of drawn animation?
Seeing Double is packed with elaborations of his trademark idiom: imagery transmogrified
GREGORY GILLESPIE Forum Gallery CHAIM GROSS: REINVENTING FORM Forum Gallery WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: THE MAGIC FLUTE, DRAWINGS AND PROJECTIONS Marian Goodman Gallery Not many contemporary artists came as close as Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000) to the virtuosic rendering of early Renaissance painting, and none took these talents in so unsettling a direction. The thirty-odd paintings at Forum … Continued
William Kentridge Zeno Writing Marian Goodman Gallery 24 West 57 Street, New York November 8, 2002- January 4, 2003 ‘Zeno Writing’, a multi-media project by South African artist William Kentridge which included a short animated film and supporting drawings, recently on show at Marian Goodman, is based on Italo Svevo’s 1923 novel Confessions of Zeno. The novel, … Continued
New Museum of Contemporary Art New Museum of Contemporary Art New York NY 10012 www.newmuseum.org June 2 – September 16, 2001 The first American Retrospective of William Kentridge at the New Contemporary Museum is a moving experience. Despite it’s political edge, his art does not become the “kitchen help of politics.” His animated films and … Continued
A dispatch from Cape Town and the unveiling of a major museum
My personal way of taking stock of another great year of exhibitions