William Kentridge Nose: Thirty Etchings
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Bekris Gallery is delighted to present William Kentridge Nose an exhibition of 30 prints created by internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge.Groundwork was laid for the suite in 2005 when the Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb commissioned Kentridge to direct and design an opera for the Met’s 2009-2010 season. Gelb had seen Kentridge’s production of The Magic Flute and is a collector of Kentridge prints. William Kentridge chose Dmitri Shostakovich’s satirical opera The Nose which is based on Nikolai Gogol’s post modern Russian novel of the same name. Gogol’s novel follows the adventures of a pompous government official who finds one morning that his nose has left his face. The novel goes on to comment about bureaucratic banality and the folly of ambition as it follows the exploits of nose and owner.
Kentridge’s prints form a story board for the opera using the tale to examine the political and cultural history of Russia in the 1920s and 1930s.
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