William Kentridge
08 Jun - 10 Nov 2013
William Kentridge
The Refusal of Time, 2012. A collaboration with Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh & Peter Galison. Five-channel video with sound, 30', with megaphones & breathing machine ("Elephant")
Installation view Van Abbemuseum 2013. Photo Peter Co
The Refusal of Time, 2012. A collaboration with Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh & Peter Galison. Five-channel video with sound, 30', with megaphones & breathing machine ("Elephant")
Installation view Van Abbemuseum 2013. Photo Peter Co
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
The Refusal of Time
Part of 'Black or White'
8 June - 10 November 2013
In the Studio of the museum, the impressive installation The Refusal of Time (2012) by William Kentridge is on view, one of the highlights of dOCUMENTA13 in Kassel. It is part of the exhibition 'Black or White'.
The Refusal of Time arose in part out of conversations between Kentridge and science historian Peter Galison on matters including the history of the control of world time, relativity, black holes, and string theory. In this work, a small band of brass and percussion plays anarchic music behind a sequence of animations depicting the institutionalisation of time in late-nineteenth-century Paris. Kentridge narrates the story of attempts to standardise the keeping of time: the invention of pressurised clocks, of time zones, of utopian visions of total synchronisation.
William Kentridge
Kentridge (1955, lives and works in Johannesburg) is an artist, printmaker, and animator. His work is largely focused on socio-political themes drawn from the history of apartheid in South Africa. His trademark charcoal drawings, in which he uses erasure in order to create the next image, adds an element of closeness and intimacy to the depicted scene.
William Kentridge - The Refusal of Time - Part of 'Black or White' is part of: Black or White
The Refusal of Time
Part of 'Black or White'
8 June - 10 November 2013
In the Studio of the museum, the impressive installation The Refusal of Time (2012) by William Kentridge is on view, one of the highlights of dOCUMENTA13 in Kassel. It is part of the exhibition 'Black or White'.
The Refusal of Time arose in part out of conversations between Kentridge and science historian Peter Galison on matters including the history of the control of world time, relativity, black holes, and string theory. In this work, a small band of brass and percussion plays anarchic music behind a sequence of animations depicting the institutionalisation of time in late-nineteenth-century Paris. Kentridge narrates the story of attempts to standardise the keeping of time: the invention of pressurised clocks, of time zones, of utopian visions of total synchronisation.
William Kentridge
Kentridge (1955, lives and works in Johannesburg) is an artist, printmaker, and animator. His work is largely focused on socio-political themes drawn from the history of apartheid in South Africa. His trademark charcoal drawings, in which he uses erasure in order to create the next image, adds an element of closeness and intimacy to the depicted scene.
William Kentridge - The Refusal of Time - Part of 'Black or White' is part of: Black or White