"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
Workshop for "The Nose," Johannesburg (2008)
Workshop for "The Nose," Johannesburg, 2008
© William Kentridge
Courtesy the artist
© William Kentridge
Courtesy the artist
"I wanted to do a twentieth-century opera, to do a project that has to do with the end of Russian modernism, and I was interested in looking back at places in which there had been an interest in working with political imagery. Gogol’s story, The Nose, is an absurdist drama."
-William Kentridge



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