Dear friends of the gallery, Gerhard Richter celebrated his 90th birthday in February this year. At that time I renounced corona-conditioned on an exhibition , but now to make up for it. The opening will take place on Friday, 2 Sep 2022 at 7 pm.
Read MoreAmongst the most recent works, made in 2021 – 2022, will be a sequence of large-scale tapestries, created especially for the Royal Academy galleries and made in the Stephens Tapestry Studio in Diepsloot, Johannesburg. There will also be a group of large flower drawings, as well as a selection of Kentridge’s distinctive tree drawings. Many of these include rubrics, recalling a tradition that dates back to medieval manuscripts to emphasise certain words within a text. Conjunctions of words are gathered by Kentridge and used in his drawings in an apparently random manner, setting up juxtapositions which simultaneously hover on the edge of meaning and elude analysis.
Read MoreUn homme danse et virevolte d’un écran à l’autre, tandis que la musique résonne. Un autre s’avance et jette des feuilles au vent, suivi par une silhouette portant un drapeau, avant d’être rattrapé par une fanfare empreinte de gravité… Voici quelques-unes des scènes auxquelles le visiteur pourra assister en découvrant l’œuvre monumentale de William Kentridge à l’occasion de l’exposition Pas sommeil à Rennes. Huit écrans, immenses, donnent à voir sa création vidéo panoramique, intitulée More sweetly play the dance.
Read MoreDas Gefühl der Einsamkeit prägt ihr Leben und Werk, auch ihre langjährige Arbeit an der „Aida“ für die Salzburger Festspiele. Wir sprachen mit der US-iranischen Künstlerin Shirin Neshat über den frühen Verlust der Geborgenheit, das Leben im Exil, das sie nun akzeptiert hat. Und darüber, wie das Beten und die Poesie der islamischen Kultur ihr dabei Gelassenheit geben.
Read MoreDer Verein Kunst hilft geben sammelt mit Werken namenhafter Künstlerinnen und Künstlern Geld für die kriegsversehrte ukrainische Stadt Butscha. Dabei sind auch Arbeiten von Gerhard Richter und Rosemarie Trockel.
Read More"He is one of the major artists in the world today. People compare him to Picasso, to DaVinci, in terms of his expertise, his inventiveness, his sense of humor," recounted John Shannon, an art collector and founder of Milwaukee's Warehouse Art Museum on the works of William Kentridge.
Read MoreThe show at Jameel Arts Centre commemorating the 75th anniversary of the partition of India goes as far as it can to question its own principles. What is the meaning of commemoration? Can we can consider the partition to be one event, instead of one, long extended cleaving, re-performed at every border crossing between India and Pakistan?
Read MoreManifesta 14, which recently opened in the Kosovo capital of Prishtina. Under the guidance of founding director Dutch art historian Hedwig Fijen, Manifesta’s latest iteration aims to shine a light on Kosovo’s heterogenous and experimental art scene, not simply through temporary artist exhibitions but through long-term institutional and civic changes, made possible by years of cultural outreach and collaboration—a process Fijen calls one of “co-creation” between the biennial and the city’s residents.
Read MoreFor its third season in the Hamptons, Pace has staccatoed its programming into short ten-day sprints. For the dog days of August, a selection of mostly new bronze, aluminum, and silver sculptures by Kiki Smith will take center stage. Though Smith herself is a resident of the other creative enclave in the greater New York area (the Hudson Valley), the themes she often explores – fragility versus heaviness, stability versus ephemerality – are all filtered through the lens of the natural world, tying these works to point of place: the great outdoors. Sense a theme around these parts?
Read MoreSouth Africa’s leading contemporary artist offers a reflection on the limits of transitional justice in his country, which is also relevant for Taiwan and the Tai Ji Men case. A paper presented at the webinar “Tai Ji Men: The Road to Freedom,” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on July 18, 2022, United Nations Nelson Mandela Day.
Read MoreIn 2015 and 2020, the George Eastman Museum received two major donations of moving image works from South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955). Along with widely celebrated masterpieces, the collection contains a wealth of lesser-known material. This two-part program of short videos, screening on a loop in the Multipurpose Hall during museum hours, is full of wonderful surprises from Kentridge’s vast filmography.
Read MoreZu sehen sind Fotografien von Thomas Florschuetz, Candida Höfer und Katharina Sieverding, Strick- und Herdbilder von Rosemarie Trockel, Gemälde von Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Jörg Immendorff und Rissa sowie eine Rauminstallation von Bildhauer Stephan Balkenhol.
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