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Paragraph II

William Kentridge’s Lexicon is an accumulation of elemental symbols within the artist’s larger practice.  This sculptural vocabulary is comprised of the icons, ubiquitous in Kentridge's creations, which are dispersed throughout all of the media in which he works. Lexicon, as a series of bronze sculptures, functions as a form of visual dictionary.  These sculptures are symbols, glyphs, suggested words or icons, many of which have been used repeatedly across projects and bodies of work.  The glyphs can be arranged in order to construct sculptural sentences and rearranged to deny meaning.   In 2017, Kentridge produced his first set of 44 Lexicon sculptures. The second set in this series, Paragraph II, is comprised of 23 individual bronze glyphs.