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The American Friends of Mudam (AFM) is organising, together with the Luxembourg-American Chamber of Commerce (LACC) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg (AMCHAM), a presentation about Mudam Luxembourg and its current William Kentridge exhibition on Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 18:00, via Zoom.
The online event will start with a short presentation introducing Mudam Luxembourg before shifting into a conversation with South African artist William Kentridge, fellow South African writer Denis Hirson and Mudam Director Suzanne Cotter.
The exhibition "William Kentridge ~ More Sweetly Play the Dance" consists of drawings, sculptures, sound and film works that reveal the artist’s continued meditation on history and subjectivity, and on the construction of meaning, through images, language, sound and time. In William Kentridge’s universe, time is historic, geological, cinematic and, above all, the time of the studio.
Featured Speakers
Born in Johannesburg (South Africa) in 1955, William Kentridge has been making art for more than four decades. Anchored in the practice of drawing, his extensive oeuvre encompasses filmed animation, performance, theatre and opera. The Mudam exhibition is the first of its kind in presenting Mr Kentridge’s artistic production alongside works for stage and opera for the red bridge project – a collaboration between Mudam, Philharmonie Luxembourg and the City of Luxembourg’s Grand Théâtre.
Denis Hirson, born in Cambridge (England) in 1951, is a South African writer, lecturer and one-time actor, who now lives in Paris. He is the author of seven books, almost all of them at the frontier between prose and poetry and concerned with the memory of South Africa at the time of apartheid.
Born in Melbourne (Australia), Suzanne Cotter studied Art History at the University of Melbourne, the École du Louvre in Paris and the Courtauld Institute in London. She has served as Director of Mudam Luxembourg since 2018. Ms Cotter has written for several exhibition catalogues and publications on contemporary art and has held guest lecturer and tutorial positions in museums and cultural institutions in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and South Asia.
Register for this free webinar at www.amcham.lu/events/american-friends-of-mudam-cultural-exchange-with-luxembourg.
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Organiser: AFM; LACC; AMCHAM
Price: Free
Reservations: See above
