Commemorative William Kentridge print for Design Indaba

Donated by Design Indaba

Material: Digital pigment print on archival cotton rag paper

Size: 900mm x 727.8mm

Edition: 28/50, signed

The edition of 50 prints depicts an evocative series of ink drawings taken from “Refuse the Hour”, the chamber opera presented as part of Design Indaba Festival 2015 at the Cape Town City Hall.

It shows the artist in trademark white shirt and black pants and South African dancer Dada Masilo, who features in both “Refuse the Hour” and his exhibition, “The Refusal of Time”.

About William Kentridge:

Often drawing from socio-political conditions in post-apartheid South Africa, William Kentridge’s work takes on a form that is expressionist in nature.

William Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, South Africa where he currently lives and works. Often drawing from socio-political conditions in post-apartheid South Africa, William Kentridge’s work takes on a form that is expressionist in nature. For Kentridge, the process of recording history is constructed from reconfigured fragments to arrive at a provisional understanding of the past—this act of recording, dismembering and reordering crosses over into an essential activity of the studio. His work spans a diverse range of artistic media such as drawing, performance, film, printmaking, sculpture and painting. Kentridge has also directed a number of acclaimed operas and theatrical productions.

Kentridge is the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities including Yale and the University of London. In 2012 he presented the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University. In 2013 he served as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art at Oxford University, and Distinguished Visiting Humanist at the University of Rochester, New York, and in 2015 he was appointed an Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy in London. In 2017 he received the Princesa de Asturias Award for the Arts, Spain, in 2018, the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize, Italy, in 2021 the Ruth Baumgarte Art Prize, Hanover, and in 2023 the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, London. Previous awards include the Kyoto Prize, Japan (2010), the Oskar Kokoschka Award, Vienna (2008), the Kaiserring Prize (2003), and the Sharjah Biennial 6 Prize (2003), among others.

Recent major exhibitions of his work have been shown at MFA Houston, Texas (2023); The Broad Museum, Los Angeles (2022); the Royal Academy, London (2022); Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2019); and a traveling show which opened at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 2016 and travelled to subsequent venues, including the Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark and the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2017). In 2016 his 500 meter frieze Triumphs and Laments was presented along the banks of the Tiber River in Rome. Notes Towards a Model Opera, shown at the Ullens Center in Beijing, China (2015) travelled as Peripheral Thinking to The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2016). A major traveling exhibition, Fortuna, toured multiple venues in Latin America from 2012-2015. Kentridge has participated in Documenta (2012, 2002, 1997) as well as the

Venice Biennale (2015, 2005, 1999 and 1993).

About Design Indaba: Design Indaba is a respected institution on the global creative landscape, Design Indaba inspires and empowers people to create a better future through design and creativity. Founded in 1995, the multidisciplinary platform consists of a Think Tank - an annual three-day conference, voted Best in the World, at the annual IBTM awards in Barcelona- and a through-the-year Do Tank, whose landmark projects include the 10x10 Low cost Housing Project in Freedom Park ( winner of the Curry Stone Design Humanitarian Prize in USA); the Arch for Arch, an architectural monument in Cape Town, created to commemorate the life and work of Desmond Tutu; progenitors of Zeitz MOCAA and its most recent Lantern House, a new community centre in Eldorado Park.

CONTACT DETAILS:

Auctioneer: Imibala Trust

Contact No: +27 21 852 0418

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