Monday, February 9, 2009
Visual Art Currently Hanging
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM
William Kentridge, History of the Main Complaint (1996), animation film based on 21 large-scale drawings in charcoal and pastel on paper
William Kentridge is a South African artist whose work can be absolutely amazing. In conjunction with his staging of a Monteverdi opera that's playing in Seattle next month, the Henry has a show of Kentridge's films, drawings, prints, sculpture, and stereoscopic photogravures.
The work above is actually set to a Monteverdi madrigal. It is one in a series of films called Drawings for Projection, and it has as a protagonist one Soho Eckstein, the white man you see in the hospital bed. Scenes of his body being probed in the hospital are intercut with him driving past injured black bodies—he hits one, and wakes from his coma. But has he learned anything from his, and his country's, immediate past (apartheid)?
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