Publisher:
Mercatorfonds, Brussels
;
Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven
Introduction -- Being Kentridge / Margaret K. Koerner -- Tummelplatz / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Feats of prestidigitation / Harmon Siegel -- Seven types of obsolescence / Bejamin H.D. Buchloh. The well-known South African artist William Kentridge (b....
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Introduction -- Being Kentridge / Margaret K. Koerner -- Tummelplatz / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Feats of prestidigitation / Harmon Siegel -- Seven types of obsolescence / Bejamin H.D. Buchloh. The well-known 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 Kentridge's work curated for Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges-- at 800 years one of Europe's oldest surviving hospital buildings-- organized around the themes of trauma and healing. The book features an introduction by Margaret K. Koerner, and also includes essays by diverse distinguished contributors: Benjamin Buchloh considers Kentridge's alternate reception of the historical avant-garde from a perspective of exile; Joseph Leo Koerner explores the artist's work as a self-styled process of working in which the past simultaneously disfigures and redeems; and Harmon Siegel examines Kentridge's approach to film history
xiv, 217 pages,
illustrations (chiefly color),
31 cm
Notes:
This publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition "William Kentridge: smoke ashes, fable" at the Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges, Belgium from 21 October 2017 to 25 February 2018
