William Kentridge

South African, born 1955

William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s, constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second's to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art.

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Works in Collection

128 works

7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Installation of seven film fragments: Invisible Mending; Moveable Assets; Autodidact; Feats of Prestidigitation; Tabula Rasa I; Tabula Rasa II; and Balancing Act

William Kentridge

Works in Collection

7 Fragments for Georges Méliès, Installation of seven fil...

A Cat in the Meat Trade from Untitled

Act I Scene 2 from Ubu Tells the Truth

Act II Scene 5 from Ubu Tells the Truth

Act II Scene I from Ubu Tells the Truth

Act III Scene 4 from Ubu Tells the Truth

Act III Scene 9 from Ubu Tells the Truth

Act IV Scene 7 from Ubu Tells the Truth

Act IV Scene I from Ubu Tells the Truth

Act V Scene 4 from Ubu Tells the Truth

Anti-Waste from Little Morals

Automatic Writing from Point of View: An Anthology of the...

Caged Lady from Zeno at 4 A.M.

Caged Man from Zeno at 4 A.M.

Casspirs Full of Love

Copper Notes, State 0

Copper Notes, State 1

Copper Notes, State 10

Copper Notes, State 11

Copper Notes, State 2

Copper Notes, State 3

Copper Notes, State 4

Copper Notes, State 5

Copper Notes, State 6