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Blue Rubrics for Waiting for the Sibyl (You Will be Dreamt by a Jackal)

2019 Pure Afghan Lapis Lazuli screen printed onto found pages Work: 32.3 x 40.3 cm

Blue Rubrics for Waiting for the Sibyl (Something Has Been Postponed)

2019 Pure Afghan Lapis Lazuli screen printed onto found pages Work: 32.3 x 40.3 cm

Blue Rubrics for Waiting for the Sibyl (Almost Don't Tremble)

2019 Pure Afghan Lapis Lazuli screen printed onto found pages Work: 32.3 x 40.3 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Drawing for City Deep (Soho at Vitrine)

2018 Charcoal and red pencil on paper Work: 104.5 x 152 cm

Drawing for City Deep (Soho Gazing at Portrait)

2019 Charcoal and red pencil on paper Work: 80 x 120 cm

Drawing for City Deep (A Fault To Be Discovered Later)

2019 Charcoal and red pencil on paper Work: 83 x 120.5 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Drawing from Colonial Landscapes (Cataracts)

1996 charcoal and pastel 56.5 x 75.5 cm

Drawing for Il Ritorno d'Uliisse

1998 charcoal on paper Frame: 157.5 x 194.5 cm

Untitled (Drawing from Wozzeck 6)

2016 Charcoal and red pencil on Velin Arches Cover White (440gsm) Work: 121 x 160 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Sister Box

2016 Bronze, oil paint 23 x 45 x 40 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Sister Cone

2016 Bronze, oil paint 37 x 47 x 33 cm

Cursive (Set of 5)

2020 Bronze set of 5 Sculpture One: 19.2 x 16.5 x 13.1 cm

Cursive (Set of 3)

2020 Bronze set of 3 Sculpture One: 21.2 x 14.1 x 10 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Cursive (Set of 4)

2020 Bronze set of 4 Sculpture One: 22.6 x 13.5 x 9 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Drawing for Sibyl (Tree, Giddy)

2019 Indian ink, charcoal and red pencil on found pages Work: 27 x 38 cm

Drawing for Sibyl (Old Gods have retired)

2019 Charcoal, red pencil and digital text on found pages Work: 27 x 38 cm

Drawing for Sibyl (Madrono, Matter)

2019 Charcoal, pastel and red pencil on found paper pages Work: 27 x 38 cm

Fill

2017 Bronze Work: 84.5 x 80 x 44 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Cat

2019 Bronze Work: 70 x 110.8 x 50.5 cm

Hero

2018 Bronze Work: 105 x 66 x 67 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Action (Large Glyph)

2019 Bronze Work: 350 x 190 x 280 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Cape Silver (Large Glyph)

2019 Bronze Work: 350 x 173 x 258 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Ampersand (Large Glyph)

2019 Bronze Available on Request Add to My Selection

Duchess

2018 Bronze Work: 111 x 38 x 41 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Duke

2018 Bronze Work: 85 x 74 x 48 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Sister Fan

2016 Bronze, oil paint 33 x 51 x 31 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Knight

2018 Bronze Work: 97 x 106 x 53 cm

Drawing for City Deep (Soho In Gallery)

2019 Charcoal and red pencil on paper Work: 80 x 120.5 cm

About

William Kentridge’s artist website can be visited here and Instagram account here

William Kentridge (b. Johannesburg, South Africa, 1955) is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions. While his practice, expressionist in nature, is entirely underpinned by drawing, his method combines studio-based and collaborative practices to create works of art that are grounded in politics, science, literature and history, and maintain a space for contradiction and uncertainty.

Kentridge’s work has been seen in museums and galleries around the world since the 1990s, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Musée du Louvre in Paris, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Zeitz MOCAA, the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, MUDAM in Luxembourg and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He has also participated in a number of Biennale’s including Documenta in Kassel (2012, 2002,1997) and the Venice Biennale (2015, 2013, 2005, 1999, 1993).

Opera productions include Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Shostakovich’s The Nose, and Alban Berg’s operas Lulu and Wozzeck, and have been seen at opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, English National Opera in London, Opera de Lyon, Amsterdam opera, the Sydney Opera House and the Salzburg Festival.

Kentridge’s theatrical productions, performed in theatres and at festivals across the globe include Refuse the Hour, Winterreise, Paper Music, The Head & the Load, Ursonate and Waiting for the Sibyl and in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company, Ubu & the Truth Commission, Faustus in Africa!, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse, and Woyzeck on the Highveld.

In 2016 Kentridge founded the Centre for Less Good Idea in Johannesburg: a space for responsive thinking and making through experimental, collaborative and cross-disciplinary arts practices. The centre hosts an ongoing programme of workshops, public performances, and mentorship activities.
His work can be found in the collections of Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth), Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museum of Art (New York), San Diego Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier (Paris), Zetiz MoCAA (Cape Town), Norval Foundation (Cape Town), LACMA (Los Angeles), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Sharjah Art Foundation, Mudam (Luxembourg), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, MoMA (New York), SF MoMA (San Francisco), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, MoCA (Los Angeles), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), Johannesburg Art Gallery, MAXXI (Rome), Louisiana Museum (Humlebaek,Denmark), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto), Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Inhotim Museum (Brumadinho, Brazil), Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), Tate Modern (London), Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Vehbi Koç Foundation (Istanbul), Luma Foundation (Arles), Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest), Fundaçion Sorigue (Lerida, Spain), Guggenheim (Abu Dhabi), Kunsthalle Praha (Prague) and Amorepacific Museum of Art (Seoul); as well as private collections worldwide.

Kentridge is the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities including Yale and the University of London. In 2012 he presented the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University. In 2013 he served as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art at Oxford University, and Distinguished Visiting Humanist at the University of Rochester, New York, and in 2015 he was appointed an Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy in London. In 2017 he received the Princesa de Asturias Award for the Arts, Spain, and in 2018, the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize, Italy. Previous awards include the Kyoto Prize, Japan (2010), the Oskar Kokoschka Award, Vienna (2008), the Kaiserring Prize (2003), and the Sharjah Biennial 6 Prize (2003), among others.

Kentridge’s largest UK survey to date is held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London this September, followed by performances from The Centre for the Less Good Idea at The Barbican in October. Oh To Believe in Another World shares its name with the eighth episode of a new series about life in the studio, titled Self-Portrait As A Coffee Pot (2022), which takes audiences behind the scenes to show the making of the projection and is set to premiere at international film festivals in Toronto and London this season. In November, Kentridge will open another major survey exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles. Kentridge’s performance The Head & The Load, first seen at Tate Modern in 2018, travels to the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami in December.

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Exhibitions

William Kentridge | Oh To Believe in Another World

01 October - 12 November 2022

'the moon is not the sun at night'

05 January - 30 January 2022

The same space three times

18 December - 26 January 2022

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News

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions: William Kentridge

Posted 25 October 2022

The New York Times - At a Busy Frieze Fair, London’s Art Trade Thrives Despite Challenges

Posted 15 October 2022

Alfredo Jaar in Mexico's Hacer Noche

Posted 21 September 2022

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Press

Aperture: William Kentridge The Excess of the Studio

LAMag | 15 Minutes With Visionary Artist William Kentridge

William Kentridge’s Charcoal Drawings Animate Africa’s History of Colonial Resistance

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