William Kentridge Secondhand Reading Double Sided Page

Description: William Kentridge Secondhand Reading Double Sided Page – Small-Clothes Smear This is a double-sided page from William Kentridge’s 2013 work “Secondhand Reading” published by Fourthwall Books in 2014. Condition: Good UNFRAMED Size: 190mm x 270mm Title: William Kentridge: Secondhand Reading Publisher: Fourthwall Books Publication Date: 2014 The full ‘book’ can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfUjg5viGk Completed in 2013, Second-Hand Reading conveys Kentridge’s philosophical musings using flip-book animation. In contrast to the artist’s previous animation technique of drawing and re-drawing motion on the same page, Second-Hand Reading takes a 1914 edition of Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Mechanics and, at twelve pages per second, creates an continuously transforming subject, using charcoal, India ink, and colored pencil. The encyclopedia and method of flip-book animation evoke approaches to knowledge production whose times have passed, drawn together by the artist’s charcoal drawings and bounding over the numerous artistic movements that are modernism’s legacy. Here Kentridge uses old materials to create new forms, which ironically contemplate history. The physicality of the book and the abstract content remain separate—the content playing a lesser role in the artist’s choice of materials compared to the coloration and format of the old pages. Images of the pacing artist, the landscapes surrounding Johannesburg, and dancing human figures are all depicted within the book. **Major exhibition in 2022** William Kentridge at the Royal Academy of Arts, London 24 September — 11 December 2022 This ambitious exhibition – the biggest Kentridge exhibition in the UK to date – spans all 12 rooms in the RA’s Main Galleries, spilling out into our public spaces, and includes new work created in response to the galleries. Presenting a sweeping overview of Kentridge’s 40-year career, it includes rarely seen works from the 1980s up to the present day, revealing an artist at the height of his creative powers. South Africa’s most celebrated living artist transforms the RA’s Main Galleries with electrifying, immersive art spanning his 40-year career. William Kentridge is internationally acclaimed for his charcoal drawings, animated films, theatre and opera direction, tapestries, sculptures and large-scale performance pieces. Bridging the gaps between draftsmanship, dance and literature, his work – epic in both scale and ambition – responds to the legacies of colonialism and apartheid. Born in Johannesburg, Kentridge’s art developed against the backdrop of South Africa’s apartheid regime and the censorship of the 1980s. His early work often depicts what he has described as the “damaged logic” and absurdity of the era, and the country’s erasure of history.This ambitious exhibition – the biggest Kentridge exhibition in the UK to date – spans all 12 rooms in the RA’s Main Galleries, spilling out into our public spaces, and includes new work created in response to the galleries. Presenting a sweeping overview of Kentridge’s 40-year career, it includes rarely seen works from the 1980s up to the present day, revealing an artist at the height of his creative powers.Highlights include 4-metre tapestries and monumental charcoal and Indian ink drawings created in his Johannesburg studio; breath-taking animation and set designs including the mechanical theatre piece, Black Box/Chambre Noire – all the things that make up his practice.

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