Nonsense of the best sort
The absurd, “with its rupture of rationality – of conventional ways of seeing … is in fact an accurate and productive way of understanding the world… .” Recall these words of William Kentridge as you admire his great tapestry in Zurich’s main entrance hall. Coveted by collectors, his tapestries, drawings, sculptures, animated films, even stage
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Art: Bold tapestries revivify a medium
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
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On the map: artist William Kentridge’s tapestry for Ermenegildo Zegna’s London store
All through history, people have woven tapestries to tell stories. A new one by South African artist William Kentridge, hanging in the Ermenegildo Zegna store on New Bond Street in London, tells several interconnected tales, including that of the visionary Italian entrepreneur Ermenegildo Zegna, who took his father’s looms and built a wool mill in
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William Kentridge – a grand procession over four decades
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,
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WHY SHOULD I HESITATE: PUTTING DRAWINGS TO WORK
William Kentridge. ‘Why Should I Hesitate: Putting Drawings to Work’. Tapestries. Installation view ©AnelWessels
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The Stephens Tapestries Studios
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
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William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009
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
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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE STREETS OF THE CITY (AND OTHER TAPESTRIES), 2009
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
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From Paper to Weave: William Kentridge’s Tapestries Return to South Africa
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
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William Kentridge: Tapestries
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
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William Kentridge Ten Drawings for Projection
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
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Shadowy Nomads, Writ in Warp and Woof
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
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William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens Tapestry Studio – Berlin Exhibition
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
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Textured Translations: an Exhibition of Tapestries by Marguerite Stephens Tapestry Studio
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
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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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