William Kentridge Untitled (On the Reliability of Prophets), 2019 Indian ink on found pages Work: 169 x 167 cm
Kentridge made a series of large scale ink drawings of trees in preparation for his new opera project, _Waiting for the Sibyl_, which premiered at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in September 2019. _Waiting for the Sibyl_ was created in response to Alexander Calder's _Work in Progress_, the only operatic work created by Calder and staged at the Opera in Rome in 1968.
“I thought that the paper, the fragments of paper with which I have always expressed myself, were the right elements to start the dialogue with Calder”. In Kentridge's mind, the floating papers immediately evoked the image of the Cumaean Sibyl, the priestess who wrote her prophecies on oak leaves. The floating papers, like loose leaves, with the prophesies written on them, are blown away by the wind.
