{"id":956,"date":"2005-12-02T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=956"},"modified":"2005-12-02T19:25:40","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T17:25:40","slug":"william-kentridge-on-net-art-news-a-mechanical-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/william-kentridge-on-net-art-news-a-mechanical-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"William Kentridge on Net Art News: A Mechanical Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cool to see William Kentridge on Rhizome – I can’t wait to see this piece in action!<\/p>\n

Link to William Kentridge on Rhizome.org’s Net Art News: A Mechanical Masterpiece<\/a>:<\/p>\n


William Kentridge, one of South Africa’s most acclaimed contemporary visual artists, gained international stardom at Documenta X (1997), where he exhibited part of his animated film series about living through the apartheid and post-apartheid eras in Johannesburg. The hand-drawn films were produced using charcoal and pastel drawings in stop-motion, which left beautiful traces of erasure and redrawing. While working on a design for ‘The Magic Flute,’ his recent operatic adventure, Kentridge built a small-scale stage model to test his projections. This petite provocation became the basis for his current Deutsche Guggenheim commission. Visitors to the Berlin site can take-in Kentridge’s new short ‘play,’ staged within a miniature mechanical theatre and starring animatronic coffee pots who gesture in Italian, menacing kitchen appliances, and other lively characters, all rendered in his very recognizable, witty style. ‘Black Box\/Chambre Noire’ will run through January 15. Chances are, you’ve never heard a coffee pot sing quite like this before. – nathaniel stern\n <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.deutsche-bank-kunst.com\/guggenheim\/e\/ausstellungen-kentridge01.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cool to see William Kentridge on Rhizome – I can’t wait to see this piece in action! Link to William Kentridge on Rhizome.org’s Net Art News: A Mechanical Masterpiece: William Kentridge, one of South Africa’s most acclaimed contemporary visual artists, gained international stardom at Documenta X (1997), where he exhibited part of his animated film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,8,2,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-fq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1080,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/18\/kentridge-subotzky-siebrits\/","url_meta":{"origin":956,"position":0},"title":"Kentridge, Subotzky, Siebrits","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 February 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Mikhael Subotzky, from Die Vier Hoeke and UmjiegwanaHit up the William Kentridge book launch - William Kentridge Prints - at David Krut this morning, and got a fresh start of drinking wine before noon. 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