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Goodman Gallery is pleased to present five tapestries designed by William Kentridge and woven
by the Marguerite Stephens weaving studio. These tapestries, woven in mohair on traditional looms to monumental scale will be on view in the new Goodman Gallery project space, at Arts on Main, downtown Johannesburg, Main Street.
The tapestries on show form part of a larger body of work that are to be exhibited at the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy, opening November 2009. The tapestries are based on images from The Nose, the opera by Dimitri Shostakovich that William Kentridge will direct for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, opening in 2010.
Kentridge has been hailed as ‘one of the most compelling interdisciplinary artists of our time’ by Dan Cameron, former Chief Curator of the New Museum in New York. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1955, Kentridge has sought, through his films, drawings, sculptures, graphics and music, theatre and opera projects, to come to terms with the fragmented and fractured nature of his home town and country and with broader global divisions.
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William Kentridge L'Incidente e Chiuso, 2009 Tapestry 383 x 430cm Edition of 6
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William Kentridge Partie du Royaume de Naples contenant la Basilicate et la Calabre, 2009 Tapestry 421 x 370cm Edition of 6
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William Kentridge Pianta della Citta di Napoli, 2009 Tapestry 350 x 450cm Edition of 6
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William Kentridge Streets of the City, 2009 Tapestry 440 x 443cm Edition of 6
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William Kentridge Augustine's Empire, 2008 Tapestry 410 x 442cm Edition of 6
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Installation picture [William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009]
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Installation picture [William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009]
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Installation picture [William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009]
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Installation picture [William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009]
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Installation picture [William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009]
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Installation picture [William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009]
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Installation picture [William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009]
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Installation picture [William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009]
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