Quartet 3
William KENTRIDGE: artist
Renzo Vignali Artistic Foundry, Pretoria: manufacturer
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These four figures - that weigh about 400 kilograms each and stand three meters high - are extensions of the ideas guiding the small bronzes that made up Kentridge's Shadow Procession of 2001. Like their precursors, these large sculptures morph as the viewer walks around them, harking back to the characters in Kentridge's films that also keep changing shape and form. They take on a theatrical scale that in some way brings his shadow puppetry work into a three-dimensional realization. The challenge in the works was to maintain the fresh and fluid mark making and gestures that exist for him when he is tearing paper or working with charcoal in a scale that would ultimately be double his height.
Title
Quartet 3
Artist/Maker and role
William KENTRIDGE: artist
Renzo Vignali Artistic Foundry, Pretoria: manufacturer
Renzo Vignali Artistic Foundry, Pretoria: manufacturer
Date
2003-2004
Medium
bronze
Measurements
293.0 x 126.0 x 128.0cm
Credit line
Commissioned through The Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2002. Principally supported by Wesfarmers Limited, the Friends of the Art Gallery and Janet Holmes à Court
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2005/0102.3