Documenta 13: William Kentridge - The Refusal of Time [English/German]

Dear art enthusiasts,

today the documenta14, one of the most important art-exhibitions of the world, opens it's doors in Kassel (Germany). To get you in the mood, I want to show you some of the artworks from the last documenta, which took place five years ago in 2012.

Today one of my favorite works of the documenta 13:

William Kentridge - The Refusal of Time (2012)

This multimedia artwork had been composed as a 24 minutes long 5-channel projection with megaphones and a breathing machine (elephant). It had been exhibited in the northern wing of Kassels central station.

William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He's been born 1955 in Johannesburg. He's originated from a jewish family, who

were attorneys who represented people marginalized by the apartheid system.

Source

"Kendridge's recent stage-based work is centered on the ideas of time and modernity. 'The Refusal of Time' (2012) looks at the development of modes for standardizing time in the industrial age of the 1800s, when modern society was shaped through the interconnectedness of standardized clocks. Newton's measured time and Einstein's early-twentieth-century theory of relativity are the antipodes in this play, in whicha range of Kentridge's familar motifs reappear: espresso cans, cylindrical megaphones, wheels, pneumatic clocks, and other mechanical instruments, orchestrated by gigantic projected metronomes."
_{(From the documenta13 guidebook.)}

Video

Here is a short video from youtube, that gives quite a good impression of the work:

And here is the the complete information as it had been provided at the documenta 13: