Saturday, November 12, 2022

William Kentridge Images at the Royal Academy of Arts

 From Wikipedia: "William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films, especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The latter are 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 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." 

Here are some snapshots of projected images produced in this way, ending with two frames of Kentridge himself at work.

This was a remarkable exhibit. I'm very glad we chanced upon it.





















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