Artist:
William Kentridge
Production:
János Cserháti
Fabrication and installation:
Kyle Morland
Notebook production coordinators:
Jessica Jones
Anne McIlleron
Handpainted wall phrases:
Damon Garstang
Claire Zinn
Parcours d'atelier wall mural:
Keren Setton
Printer programmer:
Mitchell Gilbert Messina
Special thanks to Roger Tatley for his insight and expertise and to Goodman Gallery for their engagement and for providing transport and transit insurance for the artworks.
Artworks, phrases, and studio ephemera are courtesy of the artist.
Notebooks printed by Pulp Paperworks, Johannesburg, on Arena Ivory 70gsm
Presenting a browsable selection from William Kentridge's studio notebooks, History on One Leg is interested in Kentridge's studio tools, routes, detritus and projections. Resting on things like music stands in A4's gallery, the notebooks offer themselves to be read or deciphered. As a vital part of the artist's studio process, their pages are a place for 'thinking forwards', where sketches, scores, diagrams, lists, and phrases appear. Unlike a diary, the studio notebook is rarely a site for retrospective action. Propositions are made, things may, or may not, be further developed. For the first time in the artist's practice, the notebook becomes a complete site for work – the place to compose a film, mapped exactly from the notebook's pages and shown in this exhibition.
Lucienne Bestall
Sara de Beer
Additional notebook research:
Lemeeze Davids
Design:
Ben Johnson
