Join us for a free curator floor talk with Art Gallery of NSW curator Nicholas Chambers on Friday 6 September from 1.30pm to coincide with ‘William Kentridge: I Am Not Me, The Horse Is Not Mine’, an Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition.
One of the most powerful voices in art today, William Kentridge emerged as an artist during the apartheid regime in South Africa. Grounded in the violent absurdity of that period in his country’s history, his artworks draw connections between art, ideology, history and memory. Kentridge’s practice reveals the ways in which ideas and images echo across time and between different cultures. Kentridge’s eight-channel video work I am not me, the horse is not mine is among the artist’s most ambitious moving image works and arguably the most significant work by the artist in an Australian state institution collection. It premiered at the Biennale of Sydney in 2008 and was gifted to the Art Gallery of New South Wales by Anita and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis in 2017.
Nicholas Chambers is Senior Curator, Modern and Contemporary International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW). He previously held the positions of Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh; and Curator of Contemporary International Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. He has organised numerous exhibitions for museums in North America, Asia and Australia and, in 2018, collaborated with the Kentridge studio to develop “William Kentridge: that which we do not remember” for the AGNSW.
RSVP
Please RSVP to this event to e.stilts@tamworth.nsw.gov.au, or by phoning the gallery on 6767 5230
This project is proudly supported by the NSW Government through the Blockbusters Funding initiative.
