William Kentridge on drawing, failure and finding meaning through making

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Reporting on William Kentridge’s lecture at the New York Studio School, Hyperallergic traces how experiments in painting, acting and filmmaking informed the South African artist’s practice. Kentridge describes erasing and redrawing charcoal images on the same sheet, allowing their remaining traces to shape his animations. The account connects this open-ended process with his staging of Shostakovich’s The Nose and his MoMA retrospective.

Summarised from Hyperallergic · Harry Swartz-Turfle. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.