ART CITIES:N.York-William Kentridge

 The solo exhibition of William Kentridge at the Marian Goodman Gallery organized to run concurrently with the U.S. premiere of “Paper Music” a ciné concert by William Kentridge and Philip Miller shown for one night only on October 27th, 2014 at Carnegie Hall. The concert is presented as a part of the program Ubuntu: Music and Arts of South Africa, is ending 26/11/14.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Marian Goodman Gallery Archive

“Paper Music” features a selection of films by Kentridge with music by Miller accompanied by the voices of Joanna Dudley and Ann Masina. Two new films from “Paper Music” will be projected in the viewing room “Emergency” and “Trio for 4 Hands”. Within the gallery space are drawings from the two films. On one wall are hang 52 small framed works displayed in a grid. Each frame consists of two drawings made from India ink and red pencil on paper sourced from old dictionaries. Some of these drawings can be seen in “Emergency” while others were used to create the artist’s new flipbook, “2nd Hand Reading”. The exhibition is completed with “Take off Your Hat”, this work was created in the context of “Trio for 4 Hands” a series of long narrow strips of Japanese rice paper, pinned alongside each other, like film strips with calligraphic type ink markings on them.

Info: Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, New York, Duration: 27/10-2/11/14, Days & Hours: Mon-Sat: 10:00-18:00, www.mariangoodman.com