1 October - 31 October
   

William Kentridge

   
 

The Model Arts & Niland Gallery is delighted to announce a new exhibtion by the internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge.  The exhibtion will open on Saturday October 1st at 3pm and run until October 30.

Kentridge is a South African artist whose work tracks a personal route across the fraught legacy of apartheid and colonialism, through an innovative use of charcoal drawings, prints, collages, animation, and film.  His work presents an arresting and forceful commentary on the contemporary cultural and socio-political issues in South Africa . Inspired by music, opera, literature, and banal or troubling everyday events, the artist creates highly personal and often haunting works in a variety of media.

His work was recently shown to critical acclaim at the 51st Venice Biennale in Maria de Corral’s exhibition ‘The Experience of Art’. This exhibition includes three of the major works included in Venice; 7 Fragments for Georges Melies, 2003, a series of short films inspired by the early work of Bruce Nauman and the experimental films of artist Georges Méliès, and the two recent works Journey to the Moon and Day for Night, both 2003. These more recent films see Kentridge using 35mm and 16mm film in addition to the drawing based animation for which he is known. His simple technique of drawing, filming a few frames, erasing and then drawing some more can be seen in two other works included in the exhibition, Zeno Writing 2002 and Tide Table 2003, the later of which reintroduces the character Soho Ecstein who featured strongly in his films of the late 1980’s and mid 1990’s.

William Kentridge has exhibited extensively around the world.  His solo exhibitions have included shows in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, as well in most major cities across the world.  A retrospective exhibition is currently touring worldwide and has shown in Dusseldorf, Turin, and Sydney in the past year.  His work can be also be found in many prestigious public collections, including those of the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The South African National Gallery.  In October 2003 Kentridge received the prestigious Goslar Kaisserring in recognition of his contribution to contemporary art.

An illustrated catalogue focusing on Tide Table, with an essay by Francis McKee accompanies the exhibition and is available from the Model bookshop

The exhibition has been made possible through a shared production initiative by the Model, Limerick City Gallery of Art and the Royal Hibernian Academy