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Sunday 9 October 2022

Artlyst - William Kentridge: Merging Politics With Aesthetics – RA

The latest review I've prepared for Artlyst is of William Kentridge at the RA:

‘“This man is colonising the world. He started off with Johannesburg landscapes and he’s gone outwards, through Stalinist Russia and to Mao’s China and Vienna in the nineteen-twenties and on and on until there’s not going to be any territory in the world left that he hasn’t colonised with his drawings.”

“As elusive as it is allusive, Kentridge’s art is shaped by apartheid and grounded in the politics of the post-apartheid era, and in science, literature and history, while always maintaining space for contradiction and uncertainty.” He says, “There was an absurdity to the basic logic of apartheid that we grew up with. There was something wrong with the logic, and that false logic then gets carried through to the nth degree—with pencils in people’s hair, with the fifty-two different categorisations of what races were. So, the absurd was built in. We understood that the absurd was where we lived.”'

In homage to Kentridge and his approaches, this review is a montage of quotes about his work.

My other pieces for Artlyst are:

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Paul Hindemith - Symphony: Mathis The Painter

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