William Kentridge
K20 Grabbeplatz
Grabbeplatz 5
March 27–May 31, 2004
Johannesburg Art Gallery
King George Street, Joubert Park
July 1–October 31, 2005
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Place Ville Marie - Niveau Galerie commerciale
February 10–April 23, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia
140 George Street
The Rocks
September 1–November 28, 2004
Castello di Rivoli
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia
January 7–February 29, 2004
Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
William Kentridge’s animated films and drawings are many things to many people: a principled eye on postapartheid South Africa, an exercise in medium-specificity, a rare expressive adult sensibility. This retrospective surveys all the Kentridges in one show. Older, politically oriented films evolve into recent works that push into formal issues of film and narrative. Most exciting is the debut of Tide Table (Eckstein on the beach?), a film that brings us into a South Africa haunted by AIDS. The catalogue features essays by South African writer Jane Taylor and others.