Eye Filmmuseum IJpromenade 1 1031 KT Amsterdam The Netherlands www.eyefilm.nl In 2015, the South African artist William Kentridge gifted 10 Drawings for Projection (1989–2011) to Eye Filmmuseum. These ten short animated films—made over a period of more than 20 years—are intimate, personal meditations by Kentridge that resonate with the recent turbulent history of South Africa. The films...
An exhibition of William Kentridge’s tapestries now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art may be uneven, but that’s not totally surprising. Mr. Kentridge, born in Johannesburg in 1955, has always tackled an immense and urgent subject: his country’s anguish and inequity in the wake of apartheid. Yet he seems to lack some requisite sense of...
William Kentridge: Tapestries Brüderstraße 10 Berlin, 10178, Germany Saturday, February 7, 2015–Friday, April 24, 2015 Opening Reception: Friday, February 6, 2015, 7 p.m.–9 p.m. For the first time in Berlin, Kewenig is showing a selection of tapestries and collages by William Kentridge, born in 1955 in Johannesburg. William Kentridge came to remarkable global renown first...
Art on Paper’s exhibition opens today, 14th March and runs until 11th April 2015 at 44 Stanley Road, Auckland Park, Johannesburg. This exhibition pays tribute to the extraordinary talent of Marguerite Stephens, founder and owner of the Stephens Tapestry Studio in Diepsloot, Johannesburg and the contribution that she has made to art in South Africa...
Art 21: William Kentridge: Weaver Marguerite Stephens
About Weaver Marguerite Stephens discusses translating the artist William Kentridge’s original concepts into intricate, large-scale tapestries. Located in Diepsloot (a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa), the Stephens Tapestry Studio employs a team of local weavers, spinners, and dyers who work on vertical looms using mohair spun in Swaziland.www.art21.org
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