KENTRIDGE

William Kentridge, Flute, First Edition, by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

Hardcover 

Copyright 2007. Published 2007. Approximate size 23.9cm x 21.9cm. Approximate pages 207. William Kentridge is internationally renowned for his animated films, prints, drawings and work in theatre. His production of Mozarts opera The Magic Flute premiered at the Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in April 2005, and went on to venues in France , Italy, Israel and the United States before completing its run in South Africa in the spring of 2007. As remarkable an achievement as this production was, no less extraordinary are the many works that Kentridges preparations for the opera engendered in different media, including prints, drawings, films, projections and, finally, the miniature mechanised theatre installation Black Box/ Chambre Noire commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim in 2003. 

William Kentridge Flute traces the creative project that began with the 1998 commission to produce The Magic Flute and culminated in the operas dark progeny, Black Box/Chambre Noire. Through Kentridges commentary, an interview, essays, gorgeous photographs and reproductions of the artists work on paper, William Kentridge Flute documents the relationship between the rambunctious eighteenth century opera and Black Box, the sombre masterpiece about the massacre of the Herero people in South West Africa (now Namibia) at the beginning of the twentieth century

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