Summer Graffiti, Eight ,2002
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Notes : Producing a sweeping set of scenes, Summer Graffiti possesses a kinetic quality and a magnetic attraction which draws the viewer ever closer. Calling to mind Kentridge’s highly regarded films and processional works, the ‘frames’ exhibited within the set animate the print series. Add to this the dynamic shifts in gaze within the various prints, and the viewer becomes complicit in the interactions of the subjects as they, on the one hand, observe the subjects gazing at one another and, on the other, find themselves confronted by the gaze of the subjects themselves. Kentridge was contributing to a fundraiser for his old school and found the impetus for the series in a teacher’s manual there. The iconic blackboard visible in the set acts as a representational tool for the expression of erotic desires. Known for his depictions of the internal desires of human beings as socially unacceptable, Kentridge alludes here to those hidden impulses.
Marc Smith
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