Drawing for Waiting for the Sybil (I have brought news)
2020
Indian ink, pencil and charcoal drawings on found pages
38.25 x 51.625 in

Drawing for 'Wozzeck Opera'
2017
Charcoal on paper
52.75 x 68.0 in

William Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, South Africa where he currently lives and works. Often drawing from socio-political conditions in post-apartheid South Africa, William Kentridge’s work takes on a form that is expressionist in nature. For Kentridge, the process of recording history is constructed from reconfigured fragments to arrive at a provisional understanding of the past—this act of recording, dismembering and reordering crosses over into an essential activity of the studio. His work spans a diverse range of artistic media such as drawing, performance, film, printmaking, sculpture and painting. Kentridge has also directed a number of acclaimed operas and theatrical productions.