THE PICASSO MUSEUM MALAGA WILL SHOW A WORK BY WILLIAM KENTRIDGE IN THE AUTUMN

More Sweetly Play the Dance is a large-scale installation by South African artist William Kentridge that will be on display at the Museo Picasso Málaga from 21 November 2024 to 20 April 2025.

On the other hand, for reasons of reorganisation of the Museum's programming, the exhibition Picasso: Royan's sketchbooks has postponed its opening to 31 January to be the first show in the exhibition programme for 2025.

William Kentridge. *More Sweetly Play the Dance*, 2015, Instalación de video HD de 8 canales, 15 minutos. Colección Fundació Sorigué © William Kentridge. Photocredit Studio Hans Wilschut. Courtesy Lia Rumma Gallery

More Sweetly Play the Dance by the South African artist William Kentridge (Johannesburg, 1955) is a spectacular video installation almost forty metres in length through which an infinite procession of people in movement parades. Kentridge habitually uses this resource in his creations to vindicate the individuality of the human being, the importance of the body and the power of dance to keep death at bay.   The parade of people carrying their belongings or various objects evokes the migratory displacements due to declarations of war, searches for utopias or climatic threats, based on Kentridge's own conviction that "in the 21st century, the human power of the feet is the main method of locomotion". More Sweetly Play the Dance combines two very important aspects of the artist's work: the moving image and groups of people. This piece, which forms part of the collection of the Fundació Sorigué, will be shown at the Museo Picasso Málaga as a guest work from next November until April next year.

William Kentridge is internationally renowned for his drawings, films and theatre and opera productions. His method combines drawing, writing, film, performance, music and theatre to create works of art based on politics, science, literature and history, while maintaining a space for contradiction and uncertainty. Kentridge's work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among many others. He has participated several times in Documenta in Kassel (2012, 2002, 1997) and in the Venice Biennale (2015, 2013, 2005, 1999 and 1993). His work can be found in museums and private collections all over the world.

The Fundació Sorigué, linked to the Sorigué business group, has one of the most important contemporary art collections in Spain and the most important collection of works by William Kentridge in Europe.

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