William Kentridge—Tim Hammill Lecture
Monday, February 28, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Morse Auditorium
602 Commonwealth Ave.
Free and open to the public
William Kentridge, a South African artist, was born in Johannesburg in 1955. Kentridge is probably best known for his animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art. His recent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York showed work from the past two decades, along with films and motorized theater sets. Kentridge’s work touches on the atrocities of apartheid and social injustice, yet also expresses the new South Africa. In an introductory note to Felix in Exile, Kentridge writes, “In the same way that there is a human act of dismembering the past there is a natural process in the terrain through erosion, growth, dilapidation that also seeks to blot out events. In South Africa this process has other dimensions. The very term ‘new South Africa’ has within it the idea of a painting over the old, the natural process of dismembering, the naturalization of things new.”
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