William Kentridge: Second

March 14 – November 21, 2020

Boyle Gallery

 

 

Artist William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955) explores such topics as apartheid and colonialism through his drawings, prints, and films. The flip-book film Second-hand Reading was constructed from the successive filming of drawings on the pages of old books – a second-hand reading of those books. The seven-minute film is an investigation of race relations through an immersive combination of drawings and music, set to a soundtrack of piano and vocals composed by South African anti-apartheid activist/musician Neo Muyanga. Second-hand Reading follows a narrative arc — it starts at the beginning and eventually gets to the end — but it also acknowledges repetition, inconsistency, and illogicality as part of its material.

Video is courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/London/Paris.

 

Funded in part by the Susan B. Moldenhauer FUNd for Contemporary Art, WE Soda, the Wyoming Arts Council through the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyoming State Legislature.

 

Image: Installation of William Kentridge: Second-hand Reading at the UW Art Museum, 2020