Thinking About History While Walking, and Thus the Drawings Began to Move
1.2 – 2.14
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Ubu Tells the Truth: Act I Scene 2 1996-97
Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving
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 features 19 video works, 36 drawings and 63 prints. First shown at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto in 2009, it will travel to the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in March.
Information
http://www.momat.go.jp/english/artmuseum/william_kentridge/
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