William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable

South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridges work curated for Sint-Janshospitaal in Brugesat 800 years one of Europes oldest surviving hospital buildings organized around the themes of trauma, healing, and compassion.  The book features an introduction by Margaret K. Koerner, and also includes essays by diverse distinguished contributors: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh considers Kentridges alternate reception of the historical avant-garde from a perspective of exile; Joseph Leo Koerner explores the artists work as a self-styled process of working through in which the past simultaneously disfigures and redeems; and Harmon Siegel examines Kentridges approach to film history.  
 

Distributed for Mercatorfonds

Exhibition Schedule:

Groeningemuseum, Bruges
(10/21/17-02/25/18)

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