Once More, With Feeling: William Kentridge at Zeitz MOCAA

Published on ArtThrob, 2 October 2019.

“The exhibition’s title exists as an obscure riddle, a line borrowed from Kentridge’s production The Head and the Load (2018). Yet the question – Why Should I Hesitate? – says much of the artist at work, for Kentridge is not one to hesitate. Indeed, his drawings are profoundly without hesitation – he does not pause for fear of failure. His mark-making is assured, his gestures spontaneous, unself-conscious. There is to his work an unpolished lustre, a refined unrefinement, which is always sure but never exact. Kentridge is no stranger to error, to mishaps and missteps. On the contrary, he invites such uncertain elements into his studio, looking always to the less good idea, the secondary thought that shadows the first. Remember – ‘peripheral thinking,’ remember – ‘the margins come to the centre.’”

Read the full review here.