Revisit one of the most significant new major works in the museum's collection: 'The Refusal of Time' by the South African artist William Kentridge. It is a virtuoso and all-encompassing installation that mixes film, animation, music, graphics, etc. As a spectator, you are entirely absorbed in the immense, pulsating, symphonic visual drama.
'The Refusal of Time' (2012) is a complex and ambiguous work, full of references to early cinema, history, philosophy, and science. "It's not a scientific lesson in time," Willaim Kentridge explains. "But the work uses the metaphors scientists use when they think deeply about time." Therefore, e.g., references to Einstein's theory of relativity and figures such as black holes - "a space in which everything disappears, a way of talking about death" - throughout the work.
William Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, where he still lives and works. He had his breakthrough in the early 1990s with poetic black-and-white stop-motion films, but since the turn of the millennium, he has further developed his idiom and combined it with his love for film and theater. The result is a series of installations consisting of moving images, music, text, and sculptural objects. A form of complex, emotional, and engrossing theater scenes that envelop and overwhelm the viewer.
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art