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Exhibitions

Brilliant and distinctive but also relentless: William Kentridge, at the RA, reviewed

8 October 2022

9:00 AM

8 October 2022

9:00 AM

William Kentridge

Royal Academy, until 11 December

William Kentridge’s work has a way of sticking in the mind. I can remember all my brief encounters with it, from my first delighted sight of one of his charcoal-drawn animations, ‘Monument’ (1990), in the Whitechapel’s 2004 exhibition Faces in the Crowd to my awestruck confrontation with his eight-channel video installation I am not me, the horse is not mine(2008) in Tate Modern’s Tanks in 2012.

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