William Kentridge Exhibition

William Kentridge: Five Themes on in Melbourne at ACMI Federation Square

Thursday 8 March - Sunday 27 May 2012

Exhibition open daily 10am - 6pm

William Kentridge: Five Themes features over 60 works ranging from animations, drawings and prints to theatre models, sculptures and books. An unmissable survey of a phenomenal artistic talent, it explores five key themes of Kentridge's career, including his direction of The Magic Flute for the renowned Belgian opera house, La Monnaie, and the animated films he developed for a 2010 production of The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.


Tackling issues of colonial oppression, reconciliation, and the transient nature of individual and shared memory, Kentridge deftly combines the political with the poetic in work that moves across various artforms, from visual art to theatre to the world of the moving image. Inspired by European literature, classical music and opera, plays and early cinema, Kentridge uses archetypal characters to build whimsical, poignant and playful narratives in which good and evil are both complementary and inseparable forces.


View the exhibition trailer
Take a tour through the exhibition
Download the audio/video tour

William Kentridge on his artmaking process.

Double Exposure Photography

Florian Imgrund

Dan Mountford

Jeen Na

Three examples of double exposure photography from different artists.

German photographer Florian Imgrund acquired his first film camera in the summer of 2010 and has made incredibly good use of it since. All of his double exposure work is done completely in camera without the use of photoshop, and often merges human forms with the natural landscape. Dan Mountford also does most of his effects in camera, although some details are added afterwards in Illustrator. Then last but not least Jeen Na. See more on their Flickr pages.


You can experiment creating this effect using Photoshop. Here is a very simple tutorial to get you started.

On the streets of Uruguay

These are photographs of a collaboration between Pablo S. Herrero and David de la Mano in Montevideo, Uruguay (via street art utopia, from Colossal).

Artist as social and political commentator - Ai Wei Wei

Ai Wei Wei is a Chinese  contemporary artist who works as a sculptor, installation artist, photographer, filmaker and architect. His  is highly critical of the Chinese government and he uses his artwork to communicate and inform his audience. Watch the TED talk and hear Ai Wei Wei discuss his artwork and the treatment he has endured from the Chinese authorities.

a wall painted stop motion film

If you like Wlliam Kentridge film animations,have a look at this amazing short film by Blu: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden.

Embroidered Illustrations

Holger and Moritz NYE 2011  (The Grey Series - Installation view)

Nike Schroeder

Paper Now

Bronwyn Berman The Eternal Dance 2011

Paper Now: 28 January - 4 March 2012

Like works using paper? Check out Paper Now!

Paper Now comprises thirty works by eleven Australian artists who share a common approach to their current practice through the use of paper as the primary medium. Paper is part of our everyday experience - we use it at home, at work, in our leisure time. It is functional, ephemeral and transient. Rarely does it extend into the realm of the aesthetic. In this exhibition artists Sally Aplin, Bronwyn Berman, Marguerite Derricourt, Melinda Le Guay, Brigiat Maltese, Nerine Martini, Helen Mueller, Maryann Mussared, Jenny Pollak, Liz Shreeve and TianLi Zu employ concepts and techniques from a range of artistic and cultural traditions to transform our experience of paper. They cut, fold, stitch, etch, stamp, trace, draw and paint on and with paper highlighting the sensuality and fragility of this extraordinarily versatile substance.

View catalogue on the Incinerator website (link below)

Incinerator Art Space Willoughby, NSW Australia

Artist Talks: 2pm, Saturday 11 February & Saturday 3 March 2012

Birds

Unkempt 3 2011

Christina Empedocles uses obsessive realism in an attempt to recapture her early fascination of the natiural world, mixing idealised images and reality in a unique perspective. By folding and cutting images, using sculpture, painting and collage, she records personal moments and impressions, enhanced by the ephemera of everyday. Her work is the result of hours of looking - contrasting the nostalgic fantasy of idealised memory and the intense focus of the realistic image.

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