William Kentridge
William Kentridge (born April 28, 1955 in Johannesburg ) is a South African artist.
Life
Kentridge grew up in South Africa. As lawyers, his parents mainly represented black people in court cases during apartheid . His mother, Felicia Kentridge , co-founded the Legal Resources Center , and his father, Sydney Kentridge , was a defender in the Treason Trial . William Kentridge studied in South Africa and Europe, exhibited art in galleries and worked on theater projects for the Resistance Art Movement.
In 1976, Kentridge graduated from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg with a degree in Politics and African Studies . From 1976 to 1978 he studied at the Art Foundation in Johannesburg. In the 1980s he studied at the École Jacques Lecoq theater school in Paris, where he worked as an actor, designer and theater director. Kentridge lives and works in Johannesburg (as of 2018).
William Kentridge has received many awards. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Yale University in the United States .
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In the 1980s, Kentridge began producing animated films in which he reflected the history and social circumstances of South Africa. He draws every single picture of his productions by hand with charcoal, graphite pencil or pastel colors. This creates countless individual images with minimal deviations from which his moving works are composed. In 1993 and 2005 he took part in the Venice Biennale with animated films , and in the Documenta in 1997 and 2002 . He designed a poster for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. A major retrospective of Kentridge's work was put together in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and was then shown in other cities in Latin America. That same year, Kentridge presented the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University and was named a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences . He has been an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2011 . For Documenta 13 Kentridge was invited again and put the installation The Refusal of Time before. In 2017 he directed the opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg at the Salzburg Festival .
Works (selection)
- 1993: Felix in Exile , drawing on paper, 84 × 103 cm (auctioned in January 2010 at the Stephan Welz & Co. auction house, Johannesburg).
- 1999: Stereoscope .
- 2007: Drawing for the film Il Sole 24 Ore , charcoal, gouache, pastel and colored pencils on paper.
- 2009: with Gerhard Marx: Fire Walker , 11 meter high painted steel sculpture, Newtown, Johannesburg.
- 2011: Lecture Performance with Kentridge in the Market Theater , Johannesburg: Dancing with Dada with the composer Philip Miller and the dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo.
- 2014: Production of Schubert's Winterreise as part of the Wiener Festwochen.
Awards and nominations
- 1998: Nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize
- 2003: Goslarer Kaiserring
- 2005: Max Beckmann professorship at the Städelschule
- 2007: Order of Ikhamanga in silver
- 2008: Oskar Kokoschka Prize
- 2010: Kyoto Prize
- 2012: Dan David Prize
- 2017: Princess of Asturias Prize
- 2018: International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize
- 2019: Praemium Imperiale in the painting division
Special exhibitions
- 2004: William Kentridge , North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection , Düsseldorf .
- 2010/2011: William Kentridge. Five Themes - Five Themes , Albertina , Vienna ; previously in 2009 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art .
- 2011: Zeno Writing, 2002 , Städel / Goethe University , Frankfurt am Main; in the IG Farben building , DVD / sound loop 11:32 minutes
- 2013/14: William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time. A five-channel video installation, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, then in the Johannesburg Art Gallery .
- 2014: William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time. Institute of Contemporary Art , Boston , Massachusetts.
- 2015: William Kentridge - The Nose , Museum Haus Konstruktiv , Zurich
- 2015/2016: Double Vision: Albrecht Dürer & William Kentridge , Kupferstichkabinett Berlin (November 2015 to March 2016) and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (September 2016 to January 2017).
- 2016: NOT IT IS! , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin (May to August 2016). Catalog.
- 2017: William Kentridge. Thick time. Installations and productions , Rupertinum , Salzburg (curators: Sabine Breitwieser with Tina Teufel).
- 2017/18: William Kentridge. Smoke, Ashes Fables. Sint-Janshospital / Memlingmuseum (curator: Margaret K. Koerner) Bruges
- 2018: William Kentridge. O Sentimental Machine , Liebieghaus , Frankfurt am Main.
- 2019: William Kentridge. Shadow Procession , Kunsthalle , Mannheim.
- 2019: William Kentridge - A Poem That Is Not Our Own , Kunstmuseum Basel
Publications
- In defense of the less good idea. Sigmund Freud Lecture 2017. Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-85132-893-6 .
literature
- Sabine Breitwieser, Iwona Blazwick (eds.): William Kentridge. Thick time. Installations and productions. Hirmer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7774-2714-0 .
- Sabine Schaschl: William Kentridge: The Nose. Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86335-771-9 .
- Sandra Coumans: History and Identity. "Black Box / Chambre noire" by William Kentridge. regiospectra, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940132-37-6 .
- Michael Auping (Ed.): William Kentridge. Five Themes - Five Themes , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2633-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about William Kentridge in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about William Kentridge in the German Digital Library
- Search for "William Kentridge" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Materials by and about William Kentridge in the documenta archive
- William Kentridge on kunstaspekte.de
- William Kentridge on culturebase.net (English)
- Biography on yale.edu (English)
- William Kentridge: Harvard Norton Lectures (English)
- Out of South Africa: how politics animated the art of William Kentridge. The Guardian of September 10, 2016 (English)
- In the realm of lines and shadows. Diagonal to William Kentridge, Ö1 , July 22, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Honorary Members: William Kentridge. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 12, 2019 .
- ↑ When the storms are raging, I am not so miserable in FAZ of June 12, 2014, page 11
- ↑ List of medal winners 2007 , accessed on June 19, 2014
- ↑ ORF : 2008 Kokoschka Prize goes to William Kentridge , accessed on December 1, 2018
- ↑ Der Standard : William Kentridge receives this year's Oskar Kokoschka Prize
- ↑ Kyoto Prize William Kentridge is honored for his life's work , Die Zeit
- ↑ Exhibition information , accessed on April 27, 2016.
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on August 5, 2014.
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Exhibition information ( Memento from April 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ William Kentridge. Smoke, Ashes, Fable . In: Brugge Bezoekers . William Kentridge. Smoke, Ashes, Fable ( Memento from August 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kentridge, William |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Johannesburg , South Africa |