{"id":34184,"date":"2025-12-04T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/?post_type=bonnier_exhibition&p=34184"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:09:12","slug":"william-kentridge","status":"publish","type":"bonnier_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/en\/utstallning\/in-search-of-a-city-an-exhibition-on-cities-in-transformation\/william-kentridge\/","title":{"rendered":"William Kentridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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William Kentridge<\/b>\u00a0(b. 1955, Johannesburg) is one of South Africa\u2019s most renowned artists. His charcoal drawings and animated short films have been met with critical acclaim for their strong imagery and social pathos. His art springs from his own personal observations, in which he depicts Johannesburg during apartheid, the period before democracy was introduced in South Africa.<\/p>\n

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William Kentridge, Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris, 1989.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

10 Drawings for Projection\u00a0<\/i>is a series of animations Kentridge began in 1989, which tell the tale of Felix and Soho. The 10 collected animations, exhibited together at Bonniers Konsthall, depict one of Kentridge\u2019s typical dystopian cityscapes. Through charcoal drawings that are developed, erased and reworked before the camera, we follow the two characters as they travel through time and space. This drawing technique, which shows how the pictures are in a constant state of flux, can be compared to stories of social and political change. This drawing technique has also been said to be reminiscent of the human faculty of memory, which is constantly in a state of change and transformation.<\/p>\n

A crucial aspect of Kentridge\u2019s work is that rather than directly portraying a particular historical event, he expresses how Johannesburg as a city has inspired varying complex, multi-faceted mental states. Above and beyond the fact that apartheid created enormous divides amongst the city\u2019s inhabitants, Kentridge wishes to touch upon the idea of what it means to live one\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Utst\u00e4llning<\/p>\n\n\n\n