
Medium and Techniques: Drypoint


Blue Head
“As Erik Denker has articulated, what makes Kentridge’s prints unique is that “great variety occurs in what would normally be uniform editions. In a medium…

Head
“As Erik Denker has articulated, what makes Kentridge’s prints unique is that “great variety occurs in what would normally be uniform editions. In a medium…

Casspirs Full of Love
The origination of the plate for Casspirs Full of Love dates back to 1989, and represents Kentridge’s first foray into making prints on a large…

Departure

Romulus and Remus – (ed. of 30)
Birth of a Nation comprises of a suite of ten etchings using imagery that is adapted from classical mythology to a South African context of…

The Rape of Africa – (ed. of 30)
Birth of a Nation comprises of a suite of ten etchings using imagery that is adapted from classical mythology to a South African context of…

Sisyphus ZA by Rosenclaire

Nose 26
WHERE IS THE RED WEDGE? There was a brief period before and after the October Revolution in which the reinventions of graphic forms seemed to…

Nose 9
HOW LITTLE A HORSE NEEDS Four sticks, a crossbar, a neck and a tail. I had given myself the task of trying to find or…

Nose 3
TATLIN’S GHOST The Nose with Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International. Let us count the steps of remove. Tatlin’s plan was for a 400-metre high…

Expectant Fluid (Collaboration with Rosenclaire)
Expectant Fluid was created collaboratively at the Nirox Foundation, in February 2009, by William Kentridge, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (also known collectively as the…