At his biggest-ever UK exhibition of immersive films, luscious inks and charcoals, the artist’s work catches you off guard
Hettie Judah is a writer, and chief art critic of The i Paper. A regular contributor to Frieze, Vogue, The New York Times, Art Quarterly, Numéro Art, and author of numerous print publications, her latest book Art London will be published by ACC Art Books in September 2019. In demand as a speaker, educator and broadcaster. She is currently writing a short literary biography of one of the world's great female artists which will be published in 2020.
From the luscious ink washes of his outsized paintings of flowers and trees to the transporting choral music flooding through his films, all this loveliness, all this surreal humour, floats above a lake of concern, fed by Kentridge’s worries for his native South Africa, about forgotten histories and coming troubles on the global stage.
Elegant grotesques dance in evening dress while outside their café, traffic sits gridlocked below barbed wire-topped walls. Exploring the ills of 80s South Africa, Kentridge looks to the art of the Weimar Republic – the corruption and menace pulsing through the work of George Grosz or Otto Dix. There are occasional flashes of colour – Felix’s anxiety flows like blue water, filling up half his apartment. Red tinges tabloid headlines, street signage, fly posters and graffiti. But there are also weird lines, arcs and graphic marks that flicker across the picture.
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