I am not me,
the horse is not mine
by William Kentridge.
Closes 1 August 2010.
A comic and visually dazzling video installation by artist William Kentridge, in “I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine,” who gives an unusual presentation related to his current opera-in-progress: a work inspired by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s satirical opera “The Nose,” based on the Nikolai Gogol short story of the same name.
The work stems from Kentridge’s ongoing interest in the roots and trajectory of modernism: a mixture of the absurd, the self-reflective (and the ’self-divided’) and the forms of fragmentation that one associates with modernism, its crushing in Russia in the 1930s and the long-term trajectory of the terrors of hierarchy.
In partnership with In Context – a series of exhibitions and interventions in the city of Johannesburg featuring local and international artists.
Johannesburg Art Gallery
King George Street, between Wolmarans and Noord Streets, Joubert Park.
Top image: William Kentridge – ‘I am not me, the horse is not mine’, 2008. Video stills from installation.
Bottom image: ‘I am not me, the horse is not mine’ performance. New York.
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