William Kentridge: Universal Archive displays a series of 79 linocut images printed onto pages from dictionaries and encyclopedias. The images, which include coffee pots, cats, horses, nudes, and self-portraits, are frequent characters in the artist’s visual lexicon. The images are printed over columns of text that become part of the visual dialogue, and range from highly descriptive to gestural abstraction. This relationship of text and images is a metaphor for the interaction between rational and creative processes. The traveling exhibition is organized by the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, and is curated at the Arthur Ross Gallery by Lynn Marsden-Atlass. The exhibit opens August 25, 2018.
William Kentridge: Universal Archive
