The very first tapestry that Mags – Marguerite Stephens – wove, was based on an artwork by Cecil Skotnes. Her mother, Coral Stephens, a well-known South African weaver in her own right, saw the incised wood block on display at an exhibition at the Egon Guenther Gallery, Johannesburg in 1963 and told Skotnes that the...
Goodman Gallery is pleased to present five tapestries designed by William Kentridge and woven by the Marguerite Stephens weaving studio. These tapestries, woven in mohair on traditional looms to monumental scale will be on view in the new Goodman Gallery project space, at Arts on Main, downtown Johannesburg, Main Street. The tapestries on show form...
The William Kentridge’s exhibition Streets of the City (and other tapestries) was focus on eleven monumental tapestries, sketches and drawings on original documents and maps of the Kingdom of Naples and small sculptures in bronze, designed especially for the exhibition. The theme of the works is connect to the project on “The Nose” by Gogol. ARTIST...
As South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artist, William Kentridge’s prolific and multi-disciplinary artistic output is known around the world, ranging from animation and drawing to printmaking, performance and music. Often South African audiences see his work only after it has toured internationally, as for the recent opening of ‘Tapestries’ at the Wits Art Museum in...
Tapestries: The Wits Art Museum (WAM) showed earlier this year an extraordinary collection of tapestries, created in conjunction with Marguerite Stephens’s weaving studio, plus associated works. Stephens and Kentridge have been working together on tapestries for the past 24 years. About 40 tapestries have emerged from this longstanding collaboration between the two studios, in which...