William Kentridge Exhibition in Leipzig

The Leipzig based Art Gallery Spinnerei invites to a spring gallery tour on 30 April. The Dutch gallery-in-residence owner Johan Deumens is proud to announce David Krut who is going to present works by William Kentridge.

David Krut and Johan Deumens have been in contact for several years, based on a reciprocal interest for each program and an appreciation of a project and artist’s oriented approach and style of working. They also share a love for books, and an extensive way of documenting and promoting the artist’s oeuvre through publications. November 2010 this interest resulted in the first step to a collaboration. David Krut will work on a plan to invite Christiane Baumgartner to Cape Town. And the Johan Deumens Gallery invited David Krut to make a presentation during the Spring Tour In Leipzig.

At the Spinnerei David Krut Projects will present Nose, the 2010 suite of prints by William Kentridge. ‘Nose’ is a suite of thirty prints, each measuring roughly 15 x 20 cm (5 x 8 ”).

The ‘Nose’ series arose out of Kentridge’s preparation for his production of the Shostakovich opera The Nose for the Metropolitan Opera in March 2010. Shostakovich’s opera is based on one of the most famous stories in Russian literature, Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose, published in 1837. The story follows the adventures of the pompous government official Kovalyov who wakes up one day to find that his nose has left his face and gone walking around St Petersburg. In his interpretation of Gogol and Shostakovich, Kentridge has projected the story forward to the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Russian avant‐garde, and then into the twentieth century to include allusions to Stalin’s purges of the 1930s.

Nose has been published by David Krut Projects. The prints explore a number of techniques but rely primarily on Kentridge’s strong drypoint marks, softened by sugarlift aquatint and punctuated, in several plates, with red. Each plate is engraved with a number signalling its place in the series. There are fifty prints in each edition and they have been editioned by Jillian Ross, Niall Bingham and Mlungisi Kongisa. In 2010 this series has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York from February to April 2010, at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg and David Krut Projects, New York in February/ March 2010.

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