Untitled from Receiver
William Kentridge
South African, born 1955
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.
Medium
Photogravure
Dimensions
composition: 10 1/4 x 8 1/8" (26.1 x 20.7 cm); plate: 10 5/8 x 8 9/16" (27 x 21.7 cm); page (irreg.): 14 3/16 x 11 1/8" (36 x 28.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mary Ellen Oldenburg Fund
Accession
267.2006.A14
Palette
Art Terms
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