William Kentridge

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Kentridge in Melbourne (2012)

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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Il cavaliere di Toledo (2012), Naples

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

Special exhibitions

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

Commons : William Kentridge  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary Members: William Kentridge. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ When the storms are raging, I am not so miserable in FAZ of June 12, 2014, page 11
  3. ↑ List of medal winners 2007 , accessed on June 19, 2014
  4. ↑ ORF : 2008 Kokoschka Prize goes to William Kentridge , accessed on December 1, 2018
  5. ↑ Der Standard : William Kentridge receives this year's Oskar Kokoschka Prize
  6. ↑ Kyoto Prize William Kentridge is honored for his life's work , Die Zeit
  7. ↑ Exhibition information , accessed on April 27, 2016.
  8. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on August 5, 2014.
  9. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Exhibition information ( Memento from April 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ William Kentridge. Smoke, Ashes, Fable . In: Brugge Bezoekers . William Kentridge. Smoke, Ashes, Fable ( Memento from August 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kentridge, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg , South Africa