William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable

By Margaret K. Koerner

South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridge's work curated for Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges--at 800 years one of Europe's oldest surviving hospital buildings - organized around the themes of trauma, healing, and compassion. The book features an introduction by Margaret K. Koerner, and also includes essays by diverse distinguished contributors: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh considers Kentridge's alternate reception of the historical avant-garde from a perspective of exile; Joseph Leo Koerner explores the artist's work as a self-styled process of "working through" in which the past simultaneously disfigures and redeems; and Harmon Siegel examines Kentridge's approach to film history.

Distributed for Mercatorfonds

Exhibition Schedule:

Groeningemuseum, Bruges
(10/21/17-02/25/18)

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300230257
• ISBN13: 9780300230253
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Mercatorfonds
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 12.2"