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...Kentridge??s lecture “In Praise of Shadows” will take place today in room B04 as part of the Carpenter Center Lecture Series. Both the lecture and reception afterwards are free and open to the public...
...Kentridge??s animation style is unique. Rather than drawing individual cells, he makes a charcoal sketch on one large sheet of paper and photographs it. He then modifies the sketch slightly, rubbing out old images and drawing in new ones, again photographing the result. Movement is produced by stringing together a line of these pictures. The result is animation in which the old images are never fully erased; a piece of paper flying across the sky retains a faint shadow of itself dangling in its wake...
...images range from the violent to the surreal, many borrowed from photographs in South African newspapers. These appear in stark contrast to the fluidity of the drawing style. The films are accompanied by carefully selected music, ranging from Duke Ellington to Dvorak. The overall formal effect mirrors Kentridge??s themes of memory and suppression, of guilt and unawareness. “I have never tried to make illustrations of apartheid,” Kentridge told revue noire, a magazine of African contemporary art. “But the drawings and films are certainly spawned by and feed...
...international acclaim. In 1997, his work was featured in “Documenta X,” a cutting-edge art show in Kassel, Germany, which launched him into the spotlight. In 1998, filmmaker Reinhard Wulf and art historian Maria Anna Tappeiner filmed Drawing the Passing, a documentary on Kentridge??s creation of Stereoscope, the eighth film in the Soho Eckstein series. This documentary helped bring his work to wider audiences. Stereoscope premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in April 1999, was shown at the 48th Venice Biennalle and went on to earn...
Kentridge comes to Harvard today through the efforts of VES Head Tutor Paul Stopforth, who is also from South Africa and was working at the Market Gallery in Johannesburg when it featured Kentridge??s first solo show. In addition to having work currently displayed in Manhattan, Kentridge is also a visiting artist at Columbia University this fall semester...