Dana, Matilda and I finally made it over to The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth to see their newest exhibit: William Kentridge: Five Themes.
We'd been hoping to see it since it opened on July 12th.
Annie, a long time friend, and her two kids, Ian and Dylan came along.
The exhibit is a great mixture of media – Kentridge uses mostly charcoal on paper in conjunction with multimedia video and projections to communicate with his audiences. The films are short pieces on repeat and animations created by drawing and erasing over the same page over and over between frames.
But, by far, his greatest piece stands all by itself and is something of a marvel. It's a round top table with a canvas on top and seamless cylindrical mirror at its center. A projector, above the table, projects animations onto the canvas and the reflection is seen in the mirror.
You should definitely check this exhibit out if you can. It's showing through September 27th – Also, check out the podcast I recorded with the chief curator about Kentridge:
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