Press and Editorial
William Kentridge - Telegrams From The Nose
10 June 2008Bill Gregory
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Annandale Galleries are proud to announce the exhibition of new work by William Kentridge, the South African artist who must be counted amongst the most influential and successful artists in the world over the last decade.
The current exhibition entitled Telegrams From The Nose refers to the full-scale opera which Kentridge has been commissioned to direct for the MET in NYC in 2010 and from which many of the works in the exhibition derive. ?The Nose?, an opera by Shostakovich based on a short story by Gogol, promises to be his most important theatre work to date and followed the success of his ?The Magic Flute? which premiered in Brussels and toured to Lille, Naples, Tel-Aviv, New York and South Africa in 2005-2007.
The challenge Kentridge has set for himself has to do with problems and choices of representation. Indeed, ?How People See? could be the sub-title of this show. What do we see and why? The exhibition has a laboratory feel to it from the consistency of the furniture to the emphasis on multiple methods of viewing. There are several works that require special ?viewers? to see them ? like 3D glasses - stereoscopic gravures with a viewer one looks through, anamorphic drawings that require shiny steel cylinders to bring the image into focus, a work called ?Double Vision? that requires a viewer that is worn like goggles. Theses are not works you can pick up out of the corner of your eye. You must participate. He is questioning the meaning of space for its own sake.
William Kentridge will also have a major installation on Cockatoo island opening June 18th as part of the Sydney Biennale with both the new film ?What Will Come (Has Already Come)? and a new multi-screen video installation.
William Kentridge has collaborated with Art & Australia for their biennale issue with a five drawing cover project and another ?artist project? on the inside of the magazine with another eight drawings. All of these works will be on display in the Annandale exhibition, his sixth solo show since 1995.
*68 PAGE COLOUR CATALOGUE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
» View William Kentridge - Telegrams From The Nose exhibition
Annandale Galleries are proud to announce the exhibition of new work by William Kentridge, the South African artist who must be counted amongst the most influential and successful artists in the world over the last decade.
The current exhibition entitled Telegrams From The Nose refers to the full-scale opera which Kentridge has been commissioned to direct for the MET in NYC in 2010 and from which many of the works in the exhibition derive. ?The Nose?, an opera by Shostakovich based on a short story by Gogol, promises to be his most important theatre work to date and followed the success of his ?The Magic Flute? which premiered in Brussels and toured to Lille, Naples, Tel-Aviv, New York and South Africa in 2005-2007.
The challenge Kentridge has set for himself has to do with problems and choices of representation. Indeed, ?How People See? could be the sub-title of this show. What do we see and why? The exhibition has a laboratory feel to it from the consistency of the furniture to the emphasis on multiple methods of viewing. There are several works that require special ?viewers? to see them ? like 3D glasses - stereoscopic gravures with a viewer one looks through, anamorphic drawings that require shiny steel cylinders to bring the image into focus, a work called ?Double Vision? that requires a viewer that is worn like goggles. Theses are not works you can pick up out of the corner of your eye. You must participate. He is questioning the meaning of space for its own sake.
William Kentridge will also have a major installation on Cockatoo island opening June 18th as part of the Sydney Biennale with both the new film ?What Will Come (Has Already Come)? and a new multi-screen video installation.
William Kentridge has collaborated with Art & Australia for their biennale issue with a five drawing cover project and another ?artist project? on the inside of the magazine with another eight drawings. All of these works will be on display in the Annandale exhibition, his sixth solo show since 1995.
*68 PAGE COLOUR CATALOGUE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST