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William Kentridge / NO, IT IS / 2012 - 2013

18 December - 02 February 2013
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

In March and April of 2012, William Kentridge delivered a series of six lectures, the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, at Harvard University. In June The Refusal of Time, a 5-channel video installation with complex soundscape by Philip Miller and a breathing machine, was first presented at Documenta (13) in Kassel, Germany. In October the survey exhibition William Kentridge: Fortuna opened in Rio de Janeiro. In November The Refusal of Time was seen at MAXXI in Rome, and the related theatre piece Refuse the Hour was performed to sell-out audiences in both Rome and Athens.

The current exhibition of recent work at Goodman Gallery Cape, the first in Cape Town for five years, sets elements from these projects together with new work made especially for the exhibition – allowing the gallery to be the space where different bodies of work collide and make new connections.

The flipbook, NO, IT IS, designed by Fourthwall and co-published with the Goodman Gallery, was the start of a new project of making flipbooks and flipbook films. Both book and films are seen for the first time in this exhibition.

Artworks

Drawing: Indian Ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary
101 x 122 cm
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Silkscreen on book page: pages from Historia Natural Do Brasil
Image size: 37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on book page: pages from Septem Linguarum Calepinus 1746 / Silkscreen on Septum Linguarum Calepinus 1746
37.5 x 50.5 cm / Image size: 37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Septem Linguarum Calepinus 1746
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Mixed Media
172cm (height), footprint 58 x 58 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Septem Linguarum Calepinus 1746
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Septem Linguarum Calepinus 1746
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Journal Northern Transvaal Lands Co Hld (NTL) January 1st 1927
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Journal Northern Transvaal Lands Co Hld (NTL) January 1st 1927
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Journal Northern Transvaal Lands Co Hld (NTL) January 1st 1927
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Historia Natural Do Brasil
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from Historia Natural Do Brasil
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Page: Pages from AD Pandectas Duobus Tomis Dilftributus
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Pages: Pages from AD Pandectas Duobus Tomis Dilftributus 1757
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on Book Pages: Pages from AD Pandectas Duobus Tomis Dilftributus 1757
37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Silkscreen on book pages: pages from AD Pandectas Duobus Tomis Dilftributus 1757 / Silkscreen on Septem Linguarum Calepinus 1746
37.5 x 50.5 cm / Image size: 37.5 x 50.5 cm
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Drawing, Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary
149 x 114 cm
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Drawing: Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary
Image size: 155 x 99 cm
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Drawing: Watercolour and pastel on book pages
Image size: 160 x 121 cm
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Drawing, Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary
142 x 121 cm
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Drawing: Watercolour and pastel on book pages
Image size: 160 x 121 cm
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Drawing, Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary
151 x 176 cm
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Steel, timber, brass, aluminium, found objects (sewing machine), electronic components
66 x 60 x 40 cm (L x W x D)
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Drawing: Indian ink on book pages from Universal Technological Dictionary
Image size: 127 x 128 cm
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Percussion instruments, drums, timber, steel, brass, aluminium, electronic components
300 x 160 x 100 cm (L x W x D)
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Drawing: Watercolour and coloured pencil on book pages from Workshop Receipts pinned to Vélin d'Arches 400gsm
Image size: 31 x 36 cm
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Steel, timber, brass, found objects, leather, paper
260 x 150 x 120 cm (L x W x D)
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Drawing: Watercolour and pencil on book pages from Workshop Receipts pinned to Vélin d’Arches 400gsm
Image size: 90 x 62 cm
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Steel, timber, brass, aluminium, cardboard, cloth, leather
250 x 150 x 150 cm (L x W x D)
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Drawing: Charcoal and pencil on pages from Workshop Receipts pinned to Vélin d’Arches 400gsm
Image size: 109 x 89 cm
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Steel, timber, brass, aluminium,bicycle parts and found objects
260 x 150 x 120 cm (L x W x D)
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Drawing: Charcoal, chalk, coloured pencil and Indian ink on book pages from Workshop Receipts pinned to Vélin d’Arches 400gsm
Image size: 122.5 x 102 cm
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Bronze
30 x 33 x 25 cm
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Drawing: Charcoal, chalk and coloured pencil on book pages from Workshop Receipts pinned to Vélin d’Arches 400gsm
Image size: 153 x 102 cm
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About

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William Kentridge

William Kentridge (b.1955, South Africa) is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions.

Kentridge’s work is held in collections including MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi and Zeitz MoCAA, Cape Town.

Kentridge’s largest UK survey to date was held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2022. In the same year Kentridge opened another major survey exhibition, In Praise of Shadows, at The Broad, Los Angeles. In 2023 this exhibition travelled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Kentridge’s work has been seen in museums across the globe since the 1990s, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Albertina Museum, Vienna: Musée du Louvre in Paris, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; Reina Sofia museum, Madrid, Kunstmuseum in Basel; and Norval Foundation in Cape Town. The artist has also participated in biennale’s including Documenta in Kassel (2012, 2002,1997) and the Venice Biennale (2015, 2013, 2005, 1999, 1993).

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