In an age of video, film and electronic art, traditional tapestry weaving might seem archaic, even irrelevant to the pace of modern life. Yet William Kentridge’s bold, psychologically disturbing tapestries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art dramatically revivify a medium often regarded as primarily decorative. Kentridge didn’t produce these textiles by himself. He provided the...
The gentility of the bourgeois boudoir and boardroom to the realpolitik ‘on the ground’ has been the four-decade long journey of South Africa’s most significant and globally capped visual artist, William Kentridge. While so much of the focus of the dual retrospective exhibitions, Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings to Work, and Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture,...
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...
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...