2025年6月1日 星期日

William Kentridge: the artist who’s a master in his universe. Paper Procession,

“I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings.”


There's only one month to go until The Pull of Gravity by acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge opens at YSP on Saturday 28 June!
Marking the first museum presentation outside South Africa to focus on his sculpture, the exhibition includes over 40 sculptural works made between 2007 and 2024, including Paper Procession, a new work created for YSP.
Visit the exhibition from 28 June 2025–19 April 2026.
William Kentridge in his studio working on Paper Procession, Johannesburg, 2025. Image courtesy of Kentridge Studio 📷️ Stella Olivier.
A man sits at a table and works on a small sculpture of an abstract figure, surrounded by other work




William Kentridge: the artist who’s a master in his universe
Film projections, animation, opera, painting, sculpture: the South African…
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William Kentridge: Listening to the Image -- Neubauer Collegium Inaugural Lecture at the UChicago

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kentridge


William Kentridge, Il cavaliere di Toledo (2012), Naples
In 2009, Kentridge, in partnership with Gerhard Marx, created a 10m-tall sculpture for his home city of Johannesburg entitled Fire Walker. In 2012 his sculpture,Il cavaliere di Toledo, was unveiled in Naples.[18] Rebus(2013), referring in title to the allusional device using pictures to represent words or parts of words, is a series of bronze sculptures that form two distinct images when turned to a certain angle; when paired in correspondence, for example, a final image – a nude – is created from two original forms – a stamp and a telephone.[19]
An article about Kentridge by Calvin Tomkins appears in the 18 January 2010 issue of The New Yorker.

William Kentridge
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William Kentridge at exhibition opening atACMI in Melbourne, Australia
Born28 April 1955 (age 61)
Johannesburg
EducationUniversity of the Witwatersrandand Johannesburg Art Foundation
Known forPrintmaking, drawings, andanimated films
William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art.[1]

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2025年5月5日 星期一

Cast stone or reconstructed stone 鑄石 台北中山堂˙



鑄石



來自維基百科，自由百科全書




德國弗萊堡鑄石門道

Doorway in cast stone, Freiburg, Germany

倫敦西敏橋南端的科德石南岸獅子

The Coade stone South Bank Lion at the south end of Westminster Bridge, London




鑄石或再生石是一種精製的人造石，是預製混凝土的一種形式。它被用作建築材料，以模擬建築特徵（如飾面和裝飾）中的自然切割磚石；用於雕像；以及花園裝飾。它可以替代天然建築石材，包括石灰石、褐砂石、砂岩、青石、花崗岩、板岩和石灰華。鑄石可以由白色或灰色水泥、人造或天然沙子、碎石或天然礫石製成，並且可以用礦物著色顏料著色。它比天然石材更便宜、更均勻，並且允許將散裝材料運送到使用地點附近進行鑄造，這比運輸和雕刻非常大的石塊更便宜。


歷史

已知最早使用鑄石的是法國卡爾卡松城，約在1138年。 [1]它於 19 世紀末在倫敦首次被廣泛使用[2]，並於 20 世紀 20 年代在美國廣泛接受。 [3][4]


該行業最早的發展成果之一是科德石，一種燒製陶瓷形式的粗陶器。另一種著名的石材是維多利亞石，它由三部分精細粉碎的索雷爾山（萊斯特郡）花崗岩和一部分波特蘭水泥組成，經過精心機械混合並倒入模具中。凝固後，將磚塊放入矽酸鈉溶液中，使其硬化。許多製造商生產一種無孔產品，能夠抵抗腐蝕性的海風以及工業和住宅空氣污染。 [5]


據魯珀特·甘尼斯 (Rupert Gunnis) 稱，一位名叫範·斯潘根 (Van Spangen) 的荷蘭人於 1800 年在倫敦的鮑 (Bow) 開設了一家人造石工廠，後來與鮑威爾先生 (Mr. Powell) 合作。該公司於 1828 年解散，模具賣給了雕塑家菲利克斯·奧斯汀（Felix Austin）。 [6]

Cast stone

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Doorway in cast stone, Freiburg, Germany
The Coade stone South Bank Lion at the south end of Westminster Bridge, London

Cast stone or reconstructed stone is a refined artificial stone, a form of precast concrete. It is used as a building material to simulate natural-cut masonry in architectural features such as facings and trim; for statuary; and for garden ornaments. It may replace natural building stones including limestone, brownstone, sandstone, bluestone, granite, slate, and travertine. Cast stone can be made from white or grey cements, manufactured or natural sands, crushed stone or natural gravels, and can be coloured with mineral colouring pigments. It is cheaper and more uniform than natural stone, and allows transporting the bulk materials and casting near the place of use, which is cheaper than transporting and carving very large pieces of stone.

History

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The earliest known use of cast stone was in the Cité de Carcassonne, France, in about 1138.[1] It was first used extensively in London in the late 19th century[2] and gained widespread acceptance in America in the 1920s.[3][4]

One of the earliest developments in the industry was Coade stone, a fired ceramic form of stoneware. Another well-known variety was Victoria stone, which is composed of three parts finely crushed Mount Sorrel (Leicestershire) granite to one of Portland cement, carefully mechanically mixed and poured into moulds. After setting the blocks are placed in a solution of silicate of soda to indurate and harden them. Many manufacturers turned out a very non-porous product able to resist corrosive sea air and industrial and residential air pollution.[5]

According to Rupert Gunnis a Dutchman named Van Spangen set up an artificial stone manufactury at Bow in London in 1800 and later went into partnership with a Mr. Powell. The firm was broken up in 1828, and the moulds sold to a sculptor, Felix Austin.[6]



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