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William Kentridge鈥檚 art has been among the most internationally recognized of the past three decades and has been a transformative aspect of recent video and multicultural art. This original exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center will be the first in Colorado devoted to this internationally important artist鈥檚 work.

South African artist William Kentridge (born 1955) creates works that exist somewhere between film, drawing, and theater 鈥� sometimes as a combination of all three.

Kentridge鈥檚 drawings and stop-motion animated videos have a subtly reflective political undertone, often investigating the cultural dualities of South Africa and the artist鈥檚 birth city of Johannesburg. This exhibition focuses on Kentridge鈥檚 drawings, but also includes a selection of sculpture and video art.

Kentridge鈥檚 films begin with a charcoal drawing that he animates by erasing and mutating the image, capturing each stage on film to create an evolving narrative. The focus of this exhibition is a selection of charcoal drawings from the collection of Brenda Potter. The drawings are related to Kentridge鈥檚 films in that they are literally the very last frames of the films, yet they also stand alone as beautifully crafted and powerfully evocative representations of the artist鈥檚 personal and cultural experience.