William Kentridge: Universal Archive

Gallery Walsh Gallery
Address 200 Barlow Road
City Fairfield
State Connecticut
Zip 06824
Opening Date 03/01/2018
Closing Date 05/19/2018
Website https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/
Phone PH 203-254-4046

The exhibition presents new works on paper by renowned South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955), inspired during the writing of his Norton Lectures, which he delivered at Harvard University in 2012. In more than 75 linocut prints based on ink sketches and printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, Kentridge revisits a familiar personal iconography, including coffee pots, typewriters, cats, trees, nudes and other imagery, exploring a thematic repertoire that has appeared in art and stage productions throughout his long career. The prints, which shift from identifiable subject matter to deconstructed images of abstract marks, form juxtapositions with the underlying text that suggest skepticism about the creative process and knowledge construction.

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