AnaStef
More Sweetly Play the Dance
William Kentridge
Marian Goodman Gallery
London
11 Sep-24 Oct 2015
Composition is full of metaphors about various real events, typical of the artist, whose politics are, as described by Andrew Solomon in 2014, “associative rather than declarative”.
Nameless, film installation I made for Index show, is very closely related to this work although, I was not aware of it at the time of making it. I used the shadows to talk about mortality, dance as metaphor of life, and music as emotion to glue the ingredients together. In comparison, my work is purposely lacking narrative as I intended to make it open for personal connection with it.
Marian Goodman Gallery hosted Willian Kentridge solo exhibition in London from 11 Sep until 24 Oct 2015. Upper gallery was entirely dedicated to eight screen projection / installation .
40 meter, life-sized dancing, circular caravan is incredible experience as it is appealing aesthetically , and even more to our senses through very powerful assassinations: dance as life struggle and inevitability of death: people are walking in processions carrying their worlds with them on their shoulders, all walking in the same direction.
The entire brass band is leading the procession, followed by shadow figures, propagandist portraits , bird cages, miner's heads, dancing skeletons from life to unknown future... Recordings include silhouettes and animated charcoal and ink drawings. It is a beautiful mixture or real and representation with personal touch, that in my opinion resembles any human life experience..
