We are the world
Publication details: Mumbai Art India Publshing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2019Edition: Vol.23(1)Description: 27-35pSubject(s): Online resources: In: Art IndiaSummary: A procession of swaying silhouettes makes its way across eight large screens bringing alive the circus of life - awkwardly prancing skeletons, religious demagogues, exhorting tyrants and burdened slaves file onward, lugging cut-outs of chattels, plants, patients, IV drips and animals. Drawing from the solemn energies fo a funeral cortege and summoning the incantatory enthusiasm of a ritual parade, the advancing column feels achingly human, shamanic and spectral at the same time, against the spirited score by a brass band, this work by the South African artist William Kentridge grows, as you much with mounting thrill, intoa metaphor for the messy buut mesmerizing march of democracy. In its on-and-on-ness, the expedition loaded with omens and signs is corrupted into a journey without a destination....| Item type | Current library | Status | Barcode | |
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A procession of swaying silhouettes makes its way across eight large screens bringing alive the circus of life - awkwardly prancing skeletons, religious demagogues, exhorting tyrants and burdened slaves file onward, lugging cut-outs of chattels, plants, patients, IV drips and animals. Drawing from the solemn energies fo a funeral cortege and summoning the incantatory enthusiasm of a ritual parade, the advancing column feels achingly human, shamanic and spectral at the same time, against the spirited score by a brass band, this work by the South African artist William Kentridge grows, as you much with mounting thrill, intoa metaphor for the messy buut mesmerizing march of democracy. In its on-and-on-ness, the expedition loaded with omens and signs is corrupted into a journey without a destination....
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