Thinking About History While Walking, and Thus the Drawings Began to Move
9.4 – 10.18
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Felix’s room/Nandi with telescope 1994
Drawing for the film Felix in Exile; charcoal and pastel on paper 93×120 cm
Collection and copyright the artist
The Johannesburg-based artist’s first major solo exhibition in Japan. Kentridge creates his signiture ‘drawings in motion’ by the painstaking process of drawing in charcoal and pastel, filming a few frames, and then erasing, redrawing, and filming again. The films are characterized by both a hand-drawn simplicity and sense of humor, yet are astoundingly powerful, engendering an inescapable sense of unease. The exhibition will feature 112 works, old and new, including films, drawings, and prints. The exhibition will travel to the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) and the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima MOCA) in 2010.
Further information
http://www.momak.go.jp/English/exhibitionArchive/2009/376.html
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