William Kentridge: New museum of contemporary art, New York.(Brief Article)

Artforum International | November 1, 2001| | Copyright

William Kentridge's first American retrospective opened with a recent film, Shadow Procession, that seemed to ironize the South African artist's meteoric critical rise in the last decade. The 1999 work records a succession of jerry-built figures in silhouette, which are projected on a wall at the entrance to the show like the fleeting animals conjured by moonlight on the walls of our childhood bedrooms. To enter the exhibition was to allow one's own shadow to fall in with the phantom procession, and the film's sound track at times made this entrance like joining some kind of ...

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