William Kentridge
1955 (Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud))
Living in : Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud)
Working in : Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud)
Artist's gallery
A cannibal creator, Kentridge swallows an almost infinite network of influences (we know that he avidly collects Dürer, Rembrandt, Hopper or Beckmann), digesting European sources in the same way that Picasso appropriated traditional African forms. Constantly erased, erased and overprinted, his scenes of a past that does not pass leave the world of reportage to find the haunting rhythm of work in the mine and to evoke the haunting erosion of a mental landscape, like a trembling and moved palimpsest between memory and oblivion. "I practice a political art, that is to say ambiguous, contradictory, unfinished, oriented towards precise ends: an art of a measured optimism, which refuses nihilism", confides Kentridge.
Living in : Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud)
Working in : Johannesburg (Afrique du Sud)
Artist's gallery
A cannibal creator, Kentridge swallows an almost infinite network of influences (we know that he avidly collects Dürer, Rembrandt, Hopper or Beckmann), digesting European sources in the same way that Picasso appropriated traditional African forms. Constantly erased, erased and overprinted, his scenes of a past that does not pass leave the world of reportage to find the haunting rhythm of work in the mine and to evoke the haunting erosion of a mental landscape, like a trembling and moved palimpsest between memory and oblivion. "I practice a political art, that is to say ambiguous, contradictory, unfinished, oriented towards precise ends: an art of a measured optimism, which refuses nihilism", confides Kentridge.
Artist's exhibitions
Tout un film !
16/01/2021 - 25/02/2021
(Paris) Drawing Lab Paris - Centre d'art contemporain privé dédié au dessin
16/01/2021 - 25/02/2021
(Paris) Drawing Lab Paris - Centre d'art contemporain privé dédié au dessin
William Kentridge. Un poème qui n’est pas le nôtre.
05/02/2020 - 13/12/2020
(Villeneuve-d’Ascq) LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne
05/02/2020 - 13/12/2020
(Villeneuve-d’Ascq) LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne
Willam Kentridge - Enough and more than enough
01/11/2017 - 19/03/2018
(Madrid) Musée national centre d'art Reina Sofía
01/11/2017 - 19/03/2018
(Madrid) Musée national centre d'art Reina Sofía
William Kentridge. Smoke, Ashes, Fable.
20/10/2017 - 25/02/2018
(Brugge) Ancien hôpital Saint-Jean
20/10/2017 - 25/02/2018
(Brugge) Ancien hôpital Saint-Jean
My Joburg
20/06/2013 - 22/09/2013
(Paris) La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert
20/06/2013 - 22/09/2013
(Paris) La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert
William Kentridge « Carnets d’Egypte »
01/07/2010 - 30/09/2010
(Paris) Musée du Louvre
01/07/2010 - 30/09/2010
(Paris) Musée du Louvre
William Kentridge « cinq thèmes »
29/06/2010 - 05/09/2010
(Paris) Jeu de Paume
29/06/2010 - 05/09/2010
(Paris) Jeu de Paume