“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.
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.
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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.
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