William Kentridge
26 Apr - 24 May 2008
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
April 26th – May 24th, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday 26th April 2008, at 6 - 8:30 pm
Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings and collages by William Kentridge which will open on 26th April and will run through to 24th May 2008.
The focus of the exhibition is the artist’s book Everyone Their own Projector (published by Captures Edition) and on approximately 100 drawings made for the book. The mechanical process of seeing, in which we all become our own projectors, allows us to explore the process of perception that we employ when we are seeing and looking. Through his drawings, paintings, collages and films William Kentridge explores this phenomenon.
The drawings for Everyone Their own Projector are mixed media with pencil, pen and ink on paper or collage. 120 signed and numbered copies of the book (from a print run of 1500) will be accompanied by a lithograph and will be available for purchase.
There will be two performances of the concert I am not me, The Horse is not mine on the opening night of the exhibition. This concert includes projections by William Kentridge and music composed and conducted by François Sarhan. It will be performed by the ICTUS ensemble with François Deppe, strohcello, Tom Pauwels, guitar, Jean-Luc Plouvier, keybord, Igor Semenoff, strohviol and vocals performed by Bertrand Raynaud and Francois Sarhan. The concert is approximately 25 minutes and will be performed twice at 7pm and at 8pm.
I am not me, the horse is not mine takes its theme from the testimony that Bukharin presented to the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1932 and 1938. The title of this musical and visual piece is derived from a Russian peasant saying which denies guilt. The show uses fragments of this recently published material as well as texts from Daniil Harms; a Russian writer who died in 1942 under Stalinist repression. In addition to the instrumental and vocal performance images by William Kentridge will be projected onto a painted canvas.
William Kentridge's work has been exhibited widely throughout the world. He was the recipient in 2003 of the Kaiserring Prize / Mönchhaus-Museum für Moderne Art / Goslar. In 2000 the Carnegie Prize / Carnegie Museum of Art / Pittsburgh, for his contributions to contemporary art. Over the past few years one-man exhibitions of his work have been shown at Moderna Museet / Stockholm, Brooklyn Academy of Music / NY, which presented his own version of “The Magic Flute”; The Stadel Museum and Kunsthalle Bremen as well as Smith College / Northampton and Miami Art Central (MAC), which hosted the U.S. leg of a retrospective originating at Castello di Rivoli and seen in Germany, Australia, and Canada. Two main shows have toured internationally, one in the U.S. in 2001 which traveled from Washington to New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and Cape Town and one in Europe in 1988-1999 which was seen in Brussels, Munich, Barcelona, London, Marseille and Graz.
The artist's work has been included in many important group exhibitions including The Experience of Art / 51st Venice Biennale, 2005 ; Documenta 2, Kassel, 2002 ; the Carnegie International, 1999, Documenta I0, 1997, The 10th Sydney Biennale, Sydney.
Just recently an exhibition of Kentridge’s tapestries Notations/William Kentridge, Tapestries (2001-2007) and related etchings, sculpture and drawings took place in at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (12.12.2007- 4.6.2008)
Important upcoming exhibitions include a retrospective scheduled to open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in early 2009 that will tour to the Fort Worth Museum of Art / Texas, The Norton Museum / Florida; The Museum of Modern Art / New York and other European venues through 2010.
An edition of 120 copies of the book, signed and numbered and accompanied by a lithograph is available for purchase.
There will be a repeat of the live music performance "I am not me(The Horse is not mine)" on Saturday 24th May at 6:00 and 7:00.
April 26th – May 24th, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday 26th April 2008, at 6 - 8:30 pm
Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings and collages by William Kentridge which will open on 26th April and will run through to 24th May 2008.
The focus of the exhibition is the artist’s book Everyone Their own Projector (published by Captures Edition) and on approximately 100 drawings made for the book. The mechanical process of seeing, in which we all become our own projectors, allows us to explore the process of perception that we employ when we are seeing and looking. Through his drawings, paintings, collages and films William Kentridge explores this phenomenon.
The drawings for Everyone Their own Projector are mixed media with pencil, pen and ink on paper or collage. 120 signed and numbered copies of the book (from a print run of 1500) will be accompanied by a lithograph and will be available for purchase.
There will be two performances of the concert I am not me, The Horse is not mine on the opening night of the exhibition. This concert includes projections by William Kentridge and music composed and conducted by François Sarhan. It will be performed by the ICTUS ensemble with François Deppe, strohcello, Tom Pauwels, guitar, Jean-Luc Plouvier, keybord, Igor Semenoff, strohviol and vocals performed by Bertrand Raynaud and Francois Sarhan. The concert is approximately 25 minutes and will be performed twice at 7pm and at 8pm.
I am not me, the horse is not mine takes its theme from the testimony that Bukharin presented to the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1932 and 1938. The title of this musical and visual piece is derived from a Russian peasant saying which denies guilt. The show uses fragments of this recently published material as well as texts from Daniil Harms; a Russian writer who died in 1942 under Stalinist repression. In addition to the instrumental and vocal performance images by William Kentridge will be projected onto a painted canvas.
William Kentridge's work has been exhibited widely throughout the world. He was the recipient in 2003 of the Kaiserring Prize / Mönchhaus-Museum für Moderne Art / Goslar. In 2000 the Carnegie Prize / Carnegie Museum of Art / Pittsburgh, for his contributions to contemporary art. Over the past few years one-man exhibitions of his work have been shown at Moderna Museet / Stockholm, Brooklyn Academy of Music / NY, which presented his own version of “The Magic Flute”; The Stadel Museum and Kunsthalle Bremen as well as Smith College / Northampton and Miami Art Central (MAC), which hosted the U.S. leg of a retrospective originating at Castello di Rivoli and seen in Germany, Australia, and Canada. Two main shows have toured internationally, one in the U.S. in 2001 which traveled from Washington to New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and Cape Town and one in Europe in 1988-1999 which was seen in Brussels, Munich, Barcelona, London, Marseille and Graz.
The artist's work has been included in many important group exhibitions including The Experience of Art / 51st Venice Biennale, 2005 ; Documenta 2, Kassel, 2002 ; the Carnegie International, 1999, Documenta I0, 1997, The 10th Sydney Biennale, Sydney.
Just recently an exhibition of Kentridge’s tapestries Notations/William Kentridge, Tapestries (2001-2007) and related etchings, sculpture and drawings took place in at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (12.12.2007- 4.6.2008)
Important upcoming exhibitions include a retrospective scheduled to open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in early 2009 that will tour to the Fort Worth Museum of Art / Texas, The Norton Museum / Florida; The Museum of Modern Art / New York and other European venues through 2010.
An edition of 120 copies of the book, signed and numbered and accompanied by a lithograph is available for purchase.
There will be a repeat of the live music performance "I am not me(The Horse is not mine)" on Saturday 24th May at 6:00 and 7:00.