Black Box/Chambre Noire by William Kentridge at Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Manuela Contino | 16/07/2012Dal 16 luglio al 25 novembre 2012 il Jewish Historical Museum di Amsterdam presenta la mostra Black Box/Chambre Noire di William Kentridge con una installazione multimediale esposta nel 2005 al Deutsche Guggenheim a Berlino e commissionata dalla Deutsche Bank e dalla Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. L’installazione raccoglie le varie tipologie di strumenti utilizzati da Kentridge nello sviluppo del suo lavoro, in particolare la tecnica dell’animazione a partire dai disegni a carboncino. Black Box/Chambre Noire, che si incentra sul genocidio compiuto a Herero e Nama in Sud Africa durante il periodo del colonialismo tedesco, è un teatro meccanico nel quale sei figure performano per 21 minuti, mentre sullo sfondo vengono proiettate le animazioni.
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From 16 July to 25 November the Jewish Historical Museum presents the exhibition Black Box/Chambre Noire by William Kentridge. This multimedia installation was commissioned by Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and was exhibited in 2005 at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. The installation comprises different techniques of the artist’s working method, in particular the charcoal drawings, which he transforms into animated films. Black Box/Chambre Noire, that is about the German colonialism in Africa and in particular the destruction of the Herero and Nama peoples in South-West Africa, is a mechanical theatre in which six mechanical figures perform in turn for twenty-one minutes against a backdrop of projected animated charcoal drawings.