David Krut Gallery CT: William Kentridge: Recent Linocuts
William Kentridge: Recent Linocuts
From now till 30 July 2011, David Krut Projects Cape Town
This exhibition brings together recent examples of a medium for which William Kentridge is lesser-known. Despite the scarcity of linocuts in Kentridge’s oeuvre, one of the first prints he made in 1976 after finishing high school was a linocut: an image of his grandfather in a deck chair wearing a three-piece suit while on holiday in Muizenberg, just outside Cape Town. Although the extent of the facilities available to Kentridge at the time was limited to “lino, cartridge paper and the back of a spoon”, he has cited the image as a source (at least of outfit) for his famous ever-pin-stripe-suited character, Soho Eckstein.
20-odd years later, Kentridge has briefly returned to the linocut and, co-incidentally, to Soho Eckstein. The Ganeshian nature of Kentridge’s practice allows any selection of work to always contain traces of projects past or yet to come, as well as a particular sensitivity to medium. The linocuts included in this exhibition were all created during the course of 2010 and reference Kentridge’s production of The Nose in March 2010; his recent exhibition in the Egyptian Collection wing of the Louvre; work towards The Refusal of Time, a collaborative work set for realisation at Documenta 13; the Firewalker sculpture of 2009; and, most significantly, the return of Soho Eckstein in a new animated film.
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