Felix in Exile - William Kentridge

Work by south african artist William Kentrigde from 1994. Kentrigde uses charcoal and pastels for his drawings in which he erases and redraws parts to create stop motion style animations.

• Category

  Film & Animation

[stumptacular]

kentridge is a gifted artist and a critic of cultures and so much more... I had a really tough art prof that turned me onto kentridge...

he is the best. it takes him 6-9 months of drawing to get a few minutes of streaming animation... and when he saturates the paper with marks from erasing and drawing... he traces the drawing and keeps the overworked original to sell later as an original drawing... he is a mad genius obsessed with theatre, music(opera), socio-political as all hell...

[Candle Mambo]

i wish there was a DVD of his 'drawings for projection'!

they're very moving.

[OleVidarOve]

This is so amazing. What an artist. Sad story tough... Saw this at samtidskunst museumet in Norway...

[sumwhatparanoid]

thanks for posting!

[SkopTeocratico]

I love this. the drawing technique is brilliant.

[liuyufeng6127]

this is taken from Stanford correct?

[MrsAstrohexe]

sad, but beautiful....

[cloesmother]

he is amazing...I can only dream of ever making something a fraction as good!

[gnomecat66]

amazing. Saw the exhibit a couple of years back in sydney (mca) legit about 50 times. I was there almost everyday of it his works were just that good.

[futureforensic]

this is just so awesome. i learned of him in my drawing class and he has easily become my favorite artist. the style is so different. amazing.

[mizzlilgummy]

@stumptacular