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"Drawing is the starting point to nearly all of Kentridge's work. He sees drawing as a testing of ideas, a slow-motion version of thought.

The absurd, not as the way it is understood in england as the foolish, the joke, the humourous, but the absurd as saying you take a logic and if there is a crack in that logic and you follow it through to the nth degree, you get an absurdity in the world. inisde of south africa, the way of understanding apartheid was as this absurd logic where peoples futures and lives were designated by how curly their hair was, how dark their skin was, an absurdity deep in the heart of that logic but it is car...

The spectres of oppression and its victims in his country and beyond are conjured by the South African artist William Kentridge in an epic show spanning 40 years

Forty years of work whirl before us, the violence of apartheid, inequality and brutality underpinning it all, as Kentridge’s drawn images merge into animations, filmed performance and sculpture

Exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg presents new and recent works by William Kentridge William Kentridge, Untitled, Leaning on Air, 2020. Courtesy the artist. LUXEMBOURG .-Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean is presenting William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg), one of the most acclaimed artists of our time. Over the past four decades William Kentridge has created a major oeuvre across various artistic disciplines including performance, theatre and opera. This exhibition conce...