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William Kentridge: O Sentimental Machine
贵谤补苍办蹿耻谤迟鈥檚 Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung will feature a both comprehensive and unusual exhibition project involving one of the internationally most important contemporary artists by staging a solo show paying tribute to William Kentridge in thirty-two of its rooms in 2018. The South African artist, who is at home in multiple artistic disciplines, has been invited to bring his works into dialogue with the holdings of the house鈥檚 sculptural collection that spans five thousand years. The exhibition comprises more than thirty, partly space-filling installations exemplifying the range of Kentridge鈥檚 approach.
The presentation developed for the Liebieghaus focuses on the artist鈥檚 fundamental interest in the phenomenon of movement and its material-mechanic and optical-illusionist generation. Ranging from automatic theatres, which were already in great demand in the Ancient World, to Renaissance anamorphoses and the precursors of nineteenth-century cinematographic apparatuses such as ph茅nakisticopes and zoetropes, the techniques Kentridge falls back on also forge a bridge across a long span of time. The nineteenth-century constitutes a second exhibition focus, which offers itself to the development of issues concerning the inhuman definition of time and work in the era of industrialisation鈥攊ssues that have pervaded William Kentridge鈥檚 political work from its very beginnings.
The exhibition 鈥極 Sentimental Machine鈥� not only establishes a connection between Kentridge鈥檚 艙uvre and the 鈥榞reat鈥� history of sculpture but also intensely relates the former to the opulence of Historicism toward the end of the nineteenth century. For the first time William Kentridge鈥檚 works will be presented on a stage that combines with the artist鈥檚 conceptual, narrative and aesthetic intentions in a close and fertile way.
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贵谤补苍办蹿耻谤迟鈥檚 Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung will feature a both comprehensive and unusual exhibition project involving one of the internationally most important contemporary artists by staging a solo show paying tribute to William Kentridge in thirty-two of its rooms in 2018. The South African artist, who is at home in multiple artistic disciplines, has been invited to bring his works into dialogue with the holdings of the house鈥檚 sculptural collection that spans five thousand years. The exhibition comprises more than thirty, partly space-filling installations exemplifying the range of Kentridge鈥檚 approach.
The presentation developed for the Liebieghaus focuses on the artist鈥檚 fundamental interest in the phenomenon of movement and its material-mechanic and optical-illusionist generation. Ranging from automatic theatres, which were already in great demand in the Ancient World, to Renaissance anamorphoses and the precursors of nineteenth-century cinematographic apparatuses such as ph茅nakisticopes and zoetropes, the techniques Kentridge falls back on also forge a bridge across a long span of time. The nineteenth-century constitutes a second exhibition focus, which offers itself to the development of issues concerning the inhuman definition of time and work in the era of industrialisation鈥攊ssues that have pervaded William Kentridge鈥檚 political work from its very beginnings.
The exhibition 鈥極 Sentimental Machine鈥� not only establishes a connection between Kentridge鈥檚 艙uvre and the 鈥榞reat鈥� history of sculpture but also intensely relates the former to the opulence of Historicism toward the end of the nineteenth century. For the first time William Kentridge鈥檚 works will be presented on a stage that combines with the artist鈥檚 conceptual, narrative and aesthetic intentions in a close and fertile way.
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