Drawing for the Film “Felix in Exile”

Draftsman, filmmaker, and sculptor William Kentridge is one of South Africa’s most prominent artists. Among his best-known works are animated films on political and social issues, constructed of charcoal drawings, changed and erased and filmed over and over again. His work has been the subject of solo shows, including survey exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux-Art (1998) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2004). His shadow oratorio, Confessions of Zeno, was commissioned for Documenta XI (Kassel, 2002). He lives in Johannesburg.