WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
William Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he currently lives and works. His work, often based on the socio-political conditions in post-apartheid South Africa, takes an expressionist form. For Kentridge, the process of recording history is constructed from reconfigured fragments to arrive at a provisional understanding of the past - this act of recording, disassembling, and reordering transitions into an essential activity of the studio.
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William Kentridge, Unititled IV (Horse with Raised Leg), 2007, HI-STORYTELLING, Exhibition view Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg 2021
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William Kentridge, Composite from Waiting for the Sibyl, 2020, HI-STORYTELLING, Exhibition view Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg 2021
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William Kentridge, Bearers of Insignias, 2014 (left), Vittorio Emanuele II, 2015 (right), HI-STORYTELLING, Exhibition view Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg 2021