William Kentridge (b.1955, Johannesburg) is well known for his animated expressionist drawings in charcoal, exploring the history of colonialism and ‘the aspirations and failures of revolutionary politics’. Thick Time is a great exhibition that shows the breadth of William Kentridge’s practice, how much more than an artist working with animation he is. It’s really epic, and the impression that remains is of a wonderful, slightly mad reflection on time and history created with dance, film, kinetic sculpture, flipping books, dance, sticky tape, and the sound of the hurdy gurdy.
Kentridge at the Whitechapel
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Elizabeth Hobbs 