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Indepth Arts News:
"William Kentridge Receives the 1999 Carnegie Prize"
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Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA,
USA United States of America
The 1999 Carnegie Prize was awarded to Willliam Kentridge for his film Stereoscope, 1999. The prize comes with a $10,000 cash award, was one of the highlight events at last week's opening of the Carnegie International. Richard Armstrong, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art said that... On behalf of the Jury of Award, the museum was delighted to honor Kentridge fr this exceptional film...noting that..Kentridge has produced an influential body of work that helps reintroduce South African art to the world.
William Kentridge’s work was first exhibited in
and around Johannesburg in the late 1970s. In
1989 he began to participate in international
group shows, including Memory and
Geography. Africus Johannesburg Biennale
(1995); Jurassic Technologies Revenant, the
10th Biennale of Sydney (1996); documenta X,
Kassel, Sexta Bienal de La Habana, Truce:
Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless
Conclusions, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico,
and Delta, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris (1997); and 48th Venice Biennale
(1999). Solo shows of Kentridge’s work have
appeared at The Goodman Gallery,
Johannesburg (1992, 1994, 1997); The
Drawing Center, New York, Museum of
Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, Palais
des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, and
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania (1998); and Museum of Modern
Art, New York, and Marian Goodman Gallery,
Paris (1999). Kentridge has also directed and
designed many theater productions, including
the highly acclaimed Ubu and the Truth
Commission (1997).
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