William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in letters and lines

Join OCA tutor Wendy McMurdo at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh on the 14 January.
This exhibition brings together the work of two of South Africa’s foremost visual artists, William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland. Kentridge and Koorland come from the same generation of South African artists. Born in the 1950s, they first met as university students in the mid-1970s and have been talking about art ever since. This exhibition foregrounds a friendship of forty years and a dialogue which has been mutually enriching as the practice of each has informed that of the other.
Kentridge is known for his animated films, complex narratives and beguiling imagery drawn and redrawn in charcoal, pastel and paint. Koorland makes huge paintings that are palimpsests of found and original material, both text and imagery. The works of the two artists are very different, yet there is much they share.
The selection of works for the exhibition highlights the formal and thematic links between the work of Kentridge and Koorland, mapping their artistic friendship through shared artistic strategies and a common sense of the urgency and agency of art.
Watch BBC iplayer’s short looking at the handmade films of William Kentridge here.
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