Word: teitlebaum
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...center of Kentridge's work are the hand-drawn animated films he started making in 1985. Some are intended to be viewed one at a time, like the mournful vignettes from the lives of his fictional alter egos: Soho Eckstein, a rapacious South African businessman, and Felix Teitlebaum, a melancholy soul who pines for Eckstein's sensuous wife. Others are produced as parts of multiscreen installations in which eight or more unfurl simultaneously on all four gallery walls. So in 7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, his semicomical riff on the artist in his studio, we see Kentridge climbing...
...introduces Soho Eckstein, a Johannesburg businessman physically modeled after Kentridge and ideologically based on his grandfather, seemingly oblivious to the chaos that surrounds him. Soho leads his daily life in cleanly boxed rooms that contrast the violence of the outside world. He is accompanied by his alter ego, Felix Teitlebaum, a dreamy character who competes for Soho’s wife...
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