A portly white-haired man walks into the frame and, even before he’s sat, addresses the camera with some urgency. Over nine, roughly 30-minute episodes, Kentridge—a white South African in his late 60s with an orator’s voice and a piercing gaze—creates art and talks about his process. The works we see him create are dense and charged, paintings, charcoal drawings, sketches, …
The extraordinary survey exhibition of South African artist William Kentridge currently at the Broad comes at an auspicious moment. The “elephant” in William Kentridge’s video-swathed room crosses an abstract loom with a breathing machine. The exhibition, “William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows,” is large — around 180 individual objects made over the last 30 years — and a good number, …
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