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William Kentridge I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine

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From June 1 to June 15, 2010, the Athens Festival will present a video installation by the renowned South African visual artist William Kentridge (born 1955), which combines narration, video projection, and a vocal and instrumental soundtrack.

I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine (2008) is based on the satirical short story The Nose (1837) by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, which follows the travails of a pompous Russian bureaucrat who wakes one day to find his nose has escaped his face and assumed greater clout than he. The event comprises a multi-channel projection installation of eight film fragments accompanied by a soundscape. It reflects the artist’s interest in the rise and fall of Russian modernism, and formed part of the preparatory work for his production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera The Nose (at New York’s Metropolitan Opera – March 2010).

William Kentridge is a South African artist who makes drawings, short animated films, sculpture and prints. He also designs and directs for theatre and opera. Since his participation in Dokumenta X in Kassel in 1997, solo shows of Kentridge’s work have been seen in museums around the world. He is the recipient of the Carnegie Medal (1999/2000), the Goslar Kaisserring (2003) and the Oskar Kokoschka Award (2008). In April 2005 he directed Mozart’s The Magic Flute for the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels. The Guggenheim Foundation commissioned Black Box / Chambre Noire, a miniature theatre piece with mechanized puppets, projection and original music by Philip Miller, for the Deutsche Bank Guggenheim, Berlin, in October 2005. Current projects include the staging of Shostakovich’s opera The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (March 2010).William Kentridge’s next major appearance in Greece is a large solo show scheduled to be held at the Bernier/Eliades Gallery and organised in collaboration with the artist’s own Marian Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

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