William Kentridge
Collage Etchings
November 5 – December 24, 2015
Greg Kusera Gallery, Seattle, USA
Opening reception: Thursday, November 5, 6-8
The full stop swallows the sentence, 2012.
QUOTES:
I have never tried to make illustrations of apartheid, but the drawings and films are certainly spawned by and feed off the brutalized society left in its wake. I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures, and certain endings; an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check and nihilism at bay. – William Kentridge
If you have no eye, 2014.
Universal Archive, Ref: 21, Version E, 2012.
The artist worked on the large copper plates for each of the images, using the traditional intaglio processes of etching, aquatint and drypoint. A letterpress plate then added maps from an atlas into the large circles. These are sections of maps found by the artist in an old atlas – the Islands between Greece and Turkey in the first, and the Islands of the China Sea in the second print. The map areas were scanned and enlarged using computer technology to allow the production of heavy duty nylon polymer plates that were produced in Johannesburg and shipped to the Workshop.
Universal Archive, Ref: 53, 2012.
The artist has added extensive brush strokes of different grey watercolors to the areas around the circle and into the margins and the prints are fully worked to the edges of the paper. – David Krut, publisher