Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
William Kentridge, Marching, 2021. Bronze 122 x 98 x 102 cm (48 x 38 5/8 x 40 1/8″)
William Kentridge, Her, 2021. Bronze 134 x 62.5 x 70 cm (52 3/4 x 24 5/8 x 27 1/2″)
William Kentridge, Weigh All Tears (detail), 2021. Oil, pencil, poster paint and collage on canvas 3 parts, each: 200 x 200 cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4″)
William Kentridge, Weigh All Tears, 2021. Oil, pencil, poster paint and collage on canvas 3 parts, each: 200 x 200 cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4″)
William Kentridge, Spinner, 2021. Hand-woven mohair tapestry, 254 x 258 cm (100 x 101 5/8″)
William Kentridge, Orator, 2021. Hand-woven mohair tapestry, 260 x 196 cm (102 3/8 x 7 1/8″)
William Kentridge, Branch, 2021. Bronze 122 x 35 x 81 cm (48 x 13 3/4 x 31 7/8″)
William Kentridge, Singer Solo
Presented by Hauser & Wirth
17 December 2022 – 5 February 2023
Wednesday to Sunday, 11am – 5pm
Open by appointment
+41 33 748 62 00
This winter season, Hauser & Wirth brings the work of internationally renowned Johannesburg-based artist William Kentridge to Gstaad with two special presentations. Launching 17 December, the gallery has collaborated with the Gstaad Palace to present two large-scale sculptures by Kentridge, titled Her (2022) and Cape Silver (2018), which will be in dialogue with one another in the gardens of the Palace, also marking the first time that the artist has shown outdoor sculpture in Switzerland. Opening on the same date is a solo exhibition dedicated to Kentridge at Tarmak22, presenting work from the past four years, including a sound installation work alongside sculpture and tapestry.
Organized closely with Goodman Gallery, this is Kentridge’s second project with Hauser & Wirth, following his solo show in Hong Kong earlier this year. The presentation in Gstaad follows a major solo show at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the biggest exhibition of the artist’s work in the UK to date.
One of the most prominent artists working today, William Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he currently lives and works. Growing up under the destructive pall of apartheid and as the son of human rights lawyers, Kentridge developed a strong sense of social responsibility from an early age. Over the past five decades, his practice has parsed and questioned the historical record – responding to the past as it ineluctably shapes our present – and, in doing so, has created a world that both mirrors and shadows the inequities and absurdities of our own. Through film, performance, theatre, drawing, sculpture, painting and printmaking, the artist seeks to make sense of the world and the construction of meaning through the use of historical resources, such as literature, maps or language. His work brings viewers into awareness of how they see the world and navigate their way to more conscious modes of seeing and knowing.
Images
Jon Etter
© William Kentridge. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
William Kentridge, Branch, 2021. Bronze 122 x 35 x 81 cm (48 x 13 3/4 x 31 7/8″)
William Kentridge, Orator, 2021. Hand-woven mohair tapestry, 260 x 196 cm (102 3/8 x 7 1/8″)
William Kentridge, Spinner, 2021. Hand-woven mohair tapestry, 254 x 258 cm (100 x 101 5/8″)
William Kentridge, Weigh All Tears, 2021. Oil, pencil, poster paint and collage on canvas 3 parts, each: 200 x 200 cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4″)
William Kentridge, Weigh All Tears (detail), 2021. Oil, pencil, poster paint and collage on canvas 3 parts, each: 200 x 200 cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4″)
William Kentridge, Her, 2021. Bronze 134 x 62.5 x 70 cm (52 3/4 x 24 5/8 x 27 1/2″)
William Kentridge, Marching, 2021. Bronze 122 x 98 x 102 cm (48 x 38 5/8 x 40 1/8″)
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
William Kentridge, Singer Solo
Presented by Hauser & Wirth
17 December 2022 – 5 February 2023
Wednesday to Sunday, 11am – 5pm
Open by appointment
+41 33 748 62 00
This winter season, Hauser & Wirth brings the work of internationally renowned Johannesburg-based artist William Kentridge to Gstaad with two special presentations. Launching 17 December, the gallery has collaborated with the Gstaad Palace to present two large-scale sculptures by Kentridge, titled Her (2022) and Cape Silver (2018), which will be in dialogue with one another in the gardens of the Palace, also marking the first time that the artist has shown outdoor sculpture in Switzerland. Opening on the same date is a solo exhibition dedicated to Kentridge at Tarmak22, presenting work from the past four years, including a sound installation work alongside sculpture and tapestry.
Organized closely with Goodman Gallery, this is Kentridge’s second project with Hauser & Wirth, following his solo show in Hong Kong earlier this year. The presentation in Gstaad follows a major solo show at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the biggest exhibition of the artist’s work in the UK to date.
One of the most prominent artists working today, William Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he currently lives and works. Growing up under the destructive pall of apartheid and as the son of human rights lawyers, Kentridge developed a strong sense of social responsibility from an early age. Over the past five decades, his practice has parsed and questioned the historical record – responding to the past as it ineluctably shapes our present – and, in doing so, has created a world that both mirrors and shadows the inequities and absurdities of our own. Through film, performance, theatre, drawing, sculpture, painting and printmaking, the artist seeks to make sense of the world and the construction of meaning through the use of historical resources, such as literature, maps or language. His work brings viewers into awareness of how they see the world and navigate their way to more conscious modes of seeing and knowing.
Images
Jon Etter
© William Kentridge. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.