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William Kentridge / "Zeno Writing" and "Automatic Writing" / 2003

01 March - 29 March 2003
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

The Goodman Gallery looks forward to hosting an exhibition of new work by William Kentridge. On the day of the opening, Saturday 1st March, the gallery will have extended hours from 09h30 – 17h00. The exhibition closes Saturday 29th March at 16h00.

We will be showing his newest film, Zeno Writing, along with drawings from the film, new graphics and sculpture. Zeno Writing was made in conjunction with Confessions of Zeno, a theatrical multimedia performance done for Documenta 11. Confessions of Zeno was done as a collaboration with The Handspring Puppet Company, Kevin Volans, The Duke Quartet and Dawid Minnaar.

‘The film piece is based on Italo Svevo’s 1923 novel of the same name, Zeno is a prisoner of his own intelligence, who psychoanalyses himself in a fictive dialogue with his analyst, fretting in a stream-of-consciousness narrative about the constant need to take a stance in the politically troubled society that exists after World War I. By resituating Zeno’s Trieste in the suburbs of 1980’s Johannesburg, Kentridge explores once again the intricacies of growing up and living as a white South African under apartheid. In self-reflecting ventures, the artist experiences the landscapes of the human mind and the spaces and places that are neither neutral nor natural through the medium of drawing.’ – Documenta 11 Catalogue.

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About

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William Kentridge

William Kentridge (b.1955, South Africa) is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions.

Kentridge’s work is held in collections including MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi and Zeitz MoCAA, Cape Town.

Kentridge’s largest UK survey to date was held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2022. In the same year Kentridge opened another major survey exhibition, In Praise of Shadows, at The Broad, Los Angeles. In 2023 this exhibition travelled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Kentridge’s work has been seen in museums across the globe since the 1990s, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Albertina Museum, Vienna: Musée du Louvre in Paris, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; Reina Sofia museum, Madrid, Kunstmuseum in Basel; and Norval Foundation in Cape Town. The artist has also participated in biennale’s including Documenta in Kassel (2012, 2002,1997) and the Venice Biennale (2015, 2013, 2005, 1999, 1993).

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