William Kentridge was one of the artists whose pieces of art could be seen in İstanbul Modern "Venice-Istanbul" exhibition. His distictive animations reveal both a sense of humour and bitterness through a simple technique of successive charcoal drawings, always on the same sheet of paper, contrary to the traditional animation technique in which each movement is drawn on a separate sheet.
William Kentridge is undoubtedly the best known South African artist, currently in demand by major institutions all over the world. Working with what is in essence a very restricted technique - charcoal drawings with limited touches of pastel colour - Kentridge has deployed these drawings into an oeuvre of astounding depth. The drawings have been used as the basis for a series of animated films by the very simple technique of drawing, filming a few frames, erasing, then drawing some more and so on.
He works in theater and has so for many years, initially as set designer and actor, and more recently, director. Since 1992 he has collaborated with Handspring Puppet Company creating multi-media pieces using puppets, live actors and animation. Throughout his career he has moved between film, drawing and stage yet his primary focus remains drawing, seeing his theatre and film work as an expanded form of his drawing.
His work conceptually reflects Kentridge's Johannesburg experience, not only by colonial engravings, hospital paraphernalia, botanical drawings, maps and anatomical dissections, but also through his unique technique of charcoal drawing in which the previous drawings (which are on the same sheet) can be traced by his medium of video.
sources:
- ArtThrob: A feature on an artist in the public eye, William Kentridge
- Greg Kucera Gallery - William Kentrigde
- Wikipedia - William Kentridge
more:
- William Kentridge: Quite the Opposite of Cartoons, by Philippe Moins
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