FOOTNOTES FOR THE PANTHER/ CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN WILLIAM KENTRIDGE AND DENIS HIRSON

William Kentridge asked Denis Hirson to join him in a public conversation at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, in June 2010. It was such a re warding experience that they decided to have further conversations, public and private, whenever the time and occasion seemed right. Nine engagements followed, in places as diverse as Paris, Johannesburg, and Amsterdam, allowing the two to explore at length the ma ny issues and themes arising from Kentridges work. These conversations, in which a writer and an artist grapple with the complexiti es of mak...[Read more]