Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Av. Figueroa Alcorta 2280 - CABA
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William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, where he currently works and lives.
He is one of South Africa’s pre-eminent artists, internationally acclaimed for his drawings, engravings, collages, animated films, and theatre and opera productions.
His works explore themes that resonate with his own life experience, as well as with political issues such as social injustice, revolutionary politics, and the power of creative expression.
He studied Politics and African Studies at the University of Witwatersrand in the 1970s, and later co-founded the Junction Avenue Theatre Company. He went on to study Mime and Theatre at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Back in Johannesburg he worked in various areas of television, film and theatre and collaborated on projects with the Handspring Puppet Company.
In 2010, Kentridge received the Kyoto Prize in recognition of his contributions in the field of arts and philosophy. In 2011, he was elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature Honoris Causa by the University of London. In 2012, he delivered the prestigious Norton Lectures at Harvard University. Recently his work has been seen at Tate Modern in London, the Jeu de Paume gallery and the Louvre in Paris, La Scala in Milan, Albertina Museum in Vienna, Metropolitan Opera and Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo.
MNBA (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes)
Av. Del Libertador 1473 - CABA
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The central tenet of the great proletarian Cultural Revolution was the transformation of the consciousness of the people. Partly this was to be achieved by exemplary models: the perfect model peasant, the model worker, the model soldier, this as shown in the Model Operas
But part was done through criticism and destruction of the old. The world was divided into the good, the comparatively good, and the bad. There are grotesque images of people who are accused of either rightist views, or of having the wrong class position. These echo several of Goya’s etchings from the early 19th century. The image of victims of the Inquisition, chained in dunce’s caps, wearing sandwich-boards on which their crimes are written: an orthodoxy and authority with no place for uncertainty or criticism.
In China, even during the Cultural Revolution, some of its leaders wrote of its “probable defeat” and of “the probable imminent failure”. So the idea of failure —probable, impending or necessary— lines the walls of the studio, an element in the mix: but also inevitably the question of hope behind the failure.
William Kentridge, extract from Peripheral Thinking Lecture (2015)
Choreograper and Dancer: Dada Masilo
Music composition and Arrangement: Philip Miller
Additional Music Composition Johannes Serekeho with music performed by First St John Brass Band
Video Editing and Construction: Zana Marovic and Janus Fouché
Sound Mix: Gavan Eckhart
Costume Design: Greta Goiris
Musicians
Vocals: Bham Ntabeni, Moses Moeta, Joanna Dudley, Ann Masina, Tlale Makhene, Thato Motlhaolwa
Percussion: Tlale Makhene
Trombone: Dan Selsick
Trumpet and spoons: Adam Howard
Tuba: George Fombe
Guitar: Charles Knighten-Pullen
Stroh Violin Waldo Alexander
Performers: Dada Masilo,Tlale Makhene, Bham Ntabeni, Thato Mothlaolwa, Thabani Edwin Ntuli, Members of First St John Brass Band, Members of African Immanuel Essemblies Brass Band
MNBA (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes)
Av. Del Libertador 1473 - CABA
Free admission
Red watercolour on found pages