William Joseph Kentridge born in 1955
About the lot N° 109
Anamorphic Drawing (Telephone) ,2000
Medium: charcoal and red conté on paper with stainless steel cylinder and trestle table
Size : sheet size: 79 by 106cm, assembled size: 120 by 90 by 118cm including trestle table
Signature: signed and dated 2000 twice and inscribed 'Civitella Ranieri'
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Notes : ‘One of the aspects of doing the film or the drawings was learning the grammar of the transformations that happen when you go from a flat surface to the curved mirror. For example, to draw a straight line is relatively complicated because every straight line that you draw becomes a parabola. Lopped telephone wires are very easy. You simply draw a series of straight lines on the drawing and then lines will loop themselves around the surface of the cylinder… A circle, which is very easy to draw on a flat surface with a compass, has to become quite a strange, kidney-bean-shaped object in order to appear as a circle on the mirror. I’m interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by looking. This is interesting in itself, but more as a broad-based metaphor for how we understand the world.’William Kentridge
