William Kentridge

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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 was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1955. Kentridge’s artistic practice, expressionist in nature, is entirely underpinned by drawing. He is perhaps best known for his series of eleven animated films, Drawings for Projection, the earliest of which was completed in 1989 and the most recent of which will premiere in 2020. These hand-drawn films follow the narrative of fictional mining magnate, Soho Eckstein, his wife and her lover, Felix Teitlebaum. This saga is permeated with anecdotal elements from Kentridge’s own life and the political events, which unfolded in South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy.

In addition to being an accomplished printmaker in his own right, Kentridge’s openness to collaboration has allowed him to produce rich and extensive series of kinetic sculptures, bronzes and hand-woven tapestries. His passion for the theatre has brought him to work, as creative director, on several acclaimed opera productions ranging from Mozart’s Magic Flute , to The Nose by Shostakovich (2010) and most recently two operas by Alban Berg, Lulu (2015) and Wozzeck (2017). Kentridge has also created a number of original performance pieces including Refuse the Hour (2012); Triumphs & Laments (2017) on the Tiber river in Rome; The Head & the Load (2018) and most recently, the chamber opera, Sibyl (2019).

Kentridge’s career has spanned five decades and his work has been shown in major museums and biennales, around the world since the 1990s, including Documenta in Kassel, Germany (1997, 2003, 2012), the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1998, 2010) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2012), Musée du Louvre in Paris (2010), FORTUNA in Brazil (2013), Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in China (2015), Whitechapel Gallery in London (2016), Louisiana Museum in Denmark (2017), Reina Sofia Museum in Spain (2017), Liebieghaus Museum in Germany (2018), Kunstmuseum Basel (2019), Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town (2019), and most recently MUDAM in Luxembourg (2021).

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 many others.

Kentridge is currently working towards major survey exhibitions at The Royal Academy in London for 2022, and The Broad Museum in Los Angeles.

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Exhibitions

'the moon is not the sun at night'

05 January - 30 January 2022

The same space three times

18 December - 26 January 2022

William Kentridge | Glyphs

29 November - 30 December 2021

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News

William Kentridge | SIBYL | Barbican

Posted 12 April 2022

Goodman featured in 'African Artists: From 1882 to Now'

Posted 11 November 2021

El Anatsui, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Kudzanai Chiurai, Cassi Namoda & William Kentridge | Royal Academy, London UK

Posted 14 October 2021

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Press

The Telegraph | Sibyl Review | William Kentridge blows up the future, in spectacular style

NYT: Sibyl | With an Opera of His Own, William Kentridge Looks Into the Future

Evening Standard: Cultural Capital talks to William Kentridge

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