Untitled from Receiver

William Kentridge

2006

A black-and-white photogravure by William Kentridge that stages a cinematic studio moment to reveal the mechanics of image‑making—bringing drawing, cameras, lights, and theatrical props into a single constructed scene.

Seen from above, it strikes you as a bird’s‑eye map of creative labor—tripods and lights, tangled cables and a figure bent over a camera arranged among drawings on the walls while reversed printed text ghosts through from the facing page.

By using photogravure to record a staged studio performance, Kentridge collapses drawing, film, and printmaking into one practice and helped open contemporary art to works that foreground process, rehearsal, and the apparatus of making.

Palette

Art Terms

Photogravure Illustrated book Film still Studio photography Performance Print Contemporary art

Exhibitions

William Klein

1980

Bill Brandt, 1905–1983

1983

Untitled I

1971

Handmade Paper Prints and Unique Works

1976