Artworks Selection: Studio Life Series
Studio Life Series consists of twelve photogravures which draw on stills from a nine part film series titled Self-portrait as a coffee pot. The imagery shows how he creates intricate, wall-sizes charcoal drawings of the vistas from his studio home in Johannesburg. Three of the films were screened at the recent Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The photogravure images start from the beginning of lockdown in South Africa and continued while he was preparing for his Royal Academy exhibition which opened in London in September 2022
Studio Life: Exercise 2
Studio Life: Exercise 1
Studio Life: Blackboard
Studio Life: Felicia
Lockdown presented Kentridge with the major challenge of being isolated from collaborators and support teams, making his usual way of working impossible, and perhaps transporting…
Studio Life: The Phillips Room
Lockdown presented Kentridge with the major challenge of being isolated from collaborators and support teams, making his usual way of working impossible, and perhaps transporting…
Beckmann’s Self Portrait with Jam Jar and Scissors
The title of this print refers to the German painter Max Beckmann, who was determined in his pursual of narrative figuration at a time when…