Creator Bio
William Kentridge
b. 1955
Draftsman, filmmaker, and sculptor William Kentridge is one of South Africa’s most prominent artists. Among his best-known works are animated films on political and social issues, constructed of charcoal drawings, changed and erased and filmed over and over again. His work has been the subject of solo shows, including survey exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux-Art (1998) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2004). His shadow oratorio, Confessions of Zeno, was commissioned for Documenta XI (Kassel, 2002). He lives in Johannesburg.
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Drawing for the Film “Felix in Exile”
Kentridge’s signature practice is to draw an image in charcoal, photograph it, and then repeatedly erase, redraw, rephotograph it, and then animate it on film. Felix in Exile is the fifth film in…