About
2012
In March and April of 2012, William Kentridge delivered a series of six lectures, the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, at Harvard University. In June The Refusal of Time, a 5-channel video installation with complex soundscape by Philip Miller and a breathing machine, was first presented at Documenta (13) in Kassel, Germany. In October the survey exhibition William Kentridge: Fortuna opened in Rio de Janeiro. In November The Refusal of Time was seen at MAXXI in Rome, and the related theatre piece Refuse the Hour was performed to sell-out audiences in both Rome and Athens.
The current exhibition of recent work at Goodman Gallery Cape, the first in Cape Town for five years, sets elements from these projects together with new work made especially for the exhibition – allowing the gallery to be the space where different bodies of work collide and make new connections.
NO, IT IS
The flipbook, NO, IT IS, designed by Fourthwall and co-published with the Goodman Gallery, was the start of a new project of making flipbooks and flipbook films. Both book and films are seen for the first time in this exhibition.
A special edition of the flipbook NO, IT IS comes with an original drawing of one of the pages made for the book.
A selection of pages used in making both book and films are choreographed into panels of between two and fifty drawings each.
RUBRICS
Rubrics, a series of red silkscreened texts, punctuate the room. The phrases were both prods for and are remnants of the series of six Norton lectures presented at Harvard University, and were printed at Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg.
INDIGENOUS TREES
A series of large drawings of trees in Indian ink analyse the form of different trees indigenous to southern Africa. Drawn across multiple pages from books, each drawing is put together as a puzzle – the single pages first painted, then the whole pieced together.
UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE
The ink brush mark is picked up in selected prints from a series of recent linocuts made at David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, Universal Archive. Each print was made first as an ink drawing on paper; the image was transferred to lino and then cut, the fluid mark of brush and ink translating into the medium of linocut.
Four collage lithographs of typewriters, similarly derived from ink drawings, were printed by The Artists’ Press in White River, as were a series of smaller stone lithographs.
The two Colour Chart prints, also a translation from ink drawings, were printed by the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg.
THE SINGER & OTHER MOVING SCULPTURES
A company of kinetic sculptures have their origins in the project The Refusal of Time, and were constructed from megaphones, bicycle wheels, sewing machines, bellows, tripods, drums. A Singer sewing machine performs music composed by Philip Miller, as does a rack of drums, with software design and circuitry for both done by Janus Fouche´. Design and construction of machines by Christoff Wolmarans and Chris-Waldo de Wet.
Four small bronze sculptures cast at Workhorse Bronze Foundry in Johannesburg fragment and gather form as they are viewed from different angles.
VINYL
A limited edition vinyl of Philip Miller’s musical soundscape for The Refusal of Time comes accompanied by an ink drawing by William Kentridge, and is presented in a box designed and made by Lunetta Bartz.
BOOKS
There are five publications from the past year available at the gallery:
NO, IT IS, a flipbook published by Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg, and Goodman Gallery (also in a special edition)
The Refusal of Time, a document of the creative process for the project of the same name, published by Xavier Barral, Paris
William Kentridge: Fortuna, edited by Lilian Tone, the catalogue of an exhibition that opened in Rio de Janeiro in October 2012 (text in Portuguese)
De Como Na~o Fui Ministro do Estado, a flipbook made for the exhibition William Kentridge: Fortuna, in Brazil (drawn on pages of Machado de Assis’s novel Memo´rias Po´stumas de Bra´s Cubas, first published in 1881)
A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker, the catalogue of a substantial prints exhibition touring institutions in the UK, Hayward Publishing, London
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William Kentridge Lie of the Land 2, 2012 Drawing, Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary 149 x 114 cm Available
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William Kentridge Lekkerbreek, 2012 Drawing: Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary Image size: 155 x 99 cm Availa...
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William Kentridge Thursday Afternoon Film , 2012 Drawing: Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary Image size: 142 x 121 cm...
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William Kentridge Invention of Africa 1, 2012 Drawing, Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary 151 x 176 cm Availab...
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William Kentridge Just Add Ink, 2012 Drawing, Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary 127 x 128 cm
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William Kentridge No, it is, 2012 Drawing, Water colour and coloured pencil on found pages on Velin arches 400gsm 31 x 36 cm
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William Kentridge The Smell of Old Books, 2012 Drawing, Water colour and pencil on book pages 90 x 62 cm
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William Kentridge Paper Gestures, 2012 Drawing, Charcoal and pencil on found pages 109 x 89 cm
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William Kentridge Wanting to hold/ Needing to let go, 2012 Drawing: Charcoal, chalk, coloured paper and Indian ink on found pages pinned to Velin Arches 3...
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William Kentridge Sighs and Traces, 2012 Drawing: Charcoal, chalk, coloured pencil and Indian ink on found pages pinned to Velin Arches 400gsm 153 ...
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William Kentridge His Master's Cat, 2012 Drawing: Charcoal, chalk and coloured pencil on found pages pinned to Velin Arches 400gsm 153 x 102 cm ...
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William Kentridge Sighs and Traces, 2012 Drawing: Indian Ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary 101 x 122 cm
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William Kentridge A Poem I used to Know, 2012 Drawing, Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary 153 x 176 cm
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William Kentridge Torschluss Panik, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Septem Linguarum Calepinus 1746 37.5 x 50.5 cm Edition of 16
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William Kentridge Practical Epistemology, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Septem Linguarum Calepinus 1746 37.5 x 50.5 cm Edition of...
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William Kentridge The Full stop Swallows the Sentence, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Septem Linguarum Calepinus 1746 37.5 x 50.5 cm ...
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William Kentridge Looking at the Sun, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Journal Northern Transvaal Lands Co Hld (NTL) January 1st 1927 37.5 ...
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William Kentridge Domesticating the Bicycle, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Journal Northern Transvaal Lands Co Hld (NTL) January 1st 1927 <...
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William Kentridge Leap Before You Look, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Journal Northern Transvaal Lands Co Hld (NTL) January 1st 1927 37....
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William Kentridge Anti-Entropy, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Historia Natural Do Brasil 37.5 x 50.5 cm Edition of 16 Avai...
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William Kentridge Vertical Thinking, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Historia Natural Do Brasil 37.5 x 50.5 cm Edition of 16
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William Kentridge The Pleasures of Self Deception, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from AD Pandectas Duobus Tomis Dilftributus 37.5 x 50.5 cm<...
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William Kentridge Poems I Used To Know, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Pages: Pages from AD Pandectas Duobus Tomis Dilftributus 1757 37.5 x 50.5 cm
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William Kentridge Thick Time, 2012 Silkscreen on Book Pages: Pages from AD Pandectas Duobus Tomis Dilftributus 1757 37.5 x 50.5 cm Edition o...
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William Kentridge A Safe Space for Stupidity , 2012 Silkscreen on Book Pages: Pages from AD Pandectas Duobus Tomis Dilftributus 1757 37.5 x 50.5 cm...
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William Kentridge Cash Gold, Vermilion, 2012 Drawing: Watercolour and pastel on book pages Image size: 160 x 121 cm
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William Kentridge Eye Chart, 2012 Drawing: Watercolour and pastel on book pages Image size: 160 x 121 cm
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William Kentridge Untitled (Singer sewing machine), 2012 Steel, timber, brass, aluminium, found objects (sewing machine), electronic components 66 ...
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William Kentridge Untitled (Drum machine), 2012 Percussion instruments, drums, timber, steel, brass, aluminium, electronic components 300 x 160 x ...
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William Kentridge Untitled (Small bellows), 2012 Steel, timber, brass, found objects, leather, paper 260 x 150 x 120 cm (L x W x D)
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William Kentridge Untitled (Large bellows), 2012 Steel, timber, brass, aluminium, cardboard, cloth, leather 250 x 150 x 150 cm (L x W x D) <...
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William Kentridge Untitled (Bicycle wheel), 2012 Steel, timber, brass, aluminium,bicycle parts and found objects 260 x 150 x 120 cm (L x W x D) ...
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William Kentridge Megaphone, 2012 Bronze 39.5 x 28 x 11 cm Edition of 10
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William Kentridge Bird 1, 2012 Bronze 30 x 33 x 25 cm Edition of 10
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William Kentridge Kinetic Sculpture (megaphone with red hand drill), 2011 Mixed Media 1.7m (height), footprint 500 x 500mm Edition of 3 ...
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