David Krut Workshop presents a peak into how William Kentridge's recent large scale prints from the Triumphs and Laments Woodcut series are made.
Filmed and edited by: Naomi Boobbyer
Music: João Orechia's Motèl Mari, 'Just like a King'
To learn more about these giant woodcut prints visit our website: davidkrutprojects.com/artists/...
In January 2016 Kentridge also began discussions with a long-time collaborator, Master Printer Jillian Ross of David Krut Workshop (DKW), about using these drawings as the basis for a series of large woodcut prints. Ross and her assistants Sbongiseni Khulu and Chad Cordeiro began extensive tests on a grouping of three figures from the frieze as this would be their first woodcut project with Kentridge.
Over the course of the year, the printing team worked on creating and editioning the first two woodcuts in the series, Mantegna and The Flood. February 2017 saw the completion of the third woodcut, Lampedusa, and the fourth image, That which we do not remember was completed in October 2017. In 2020 Kentridge released the fifth and sixth images Refugees: Leaning on Air and Refugees: God's opinion is unknown. The team will competed the whole project in late 2021.
Each print comes unassembled with the following contents included:
- a black linen portfolio box that houses
- an instructions manual
- a booklet on the making of each artwork
- the number of prints found in the finished work
- the number of aluminum pins found in the finished work
- two acetate sheets with registration notes (life size)
7 сен 2021
