William Kentridge (b. 1955) has won wide international acclaim as a leading contemporary artist working today. In more than three decades, the South African visual artist, filmmaker, and stage director has built a sizable oeuvre that spans a broad range of media including animated film, prints and drawings, theatre productions, and sculpture.
Designed in close consultation with the artist, the exhibition showcases early graphic art and films from the 1980s and 1990s as well as examples of Kentridge’s more recent output, including the first adaptations for museum presentation of elements from The Head & The Load, which premiered at the Tate Modern, London, in the summer of 2018. A sumptuous production involving film projections, shadow play, and an ensemble of performers, the sprawling procession, which defies conventional genre boundaries, sheds light on a neglected chapter of history: Africa’s role in World War I. Taking up three exhibition floors at the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, the presentation balances additional major video installations such as More Sweetly Play the Dance and Shadow Procession with selections from Kentridge’s graphic oeuvre properly speaking.
Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart
William Kentridge. A Poem That Is Not Our Own
Today: 11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
08 June 2019 - 13 October 2019
William Kentridge: Blue Rubics (2016), Edition 8, Courtesy William Kentridge
William Kentridge: Right Into Her Arms (2016), ©the artist
William Kentridge: Ubu tells the truth (1997), Film still, ©the artist
William Kentridge: In Praise of Folly (2018), Drawing Lesson No. 50, Film Still, © the artist
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