The Art Newspaper : Watch four online artworks of William Kentridge on Castello di Rivoli art center's website

William Kentridge. Drawing Lessons and What to Do Alone with Oneself

The Castello di Rivoli art centre in Turin has gathered some exceptional gems for its digital cosmos online programme, which includes works specifically intended to be experienced online, according to the director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. The Italian sculptor Giuseppe Penone, for example, has created a series of films that have not been shown in a gallery space and that are not made for gallery-viewing. “He thinks of them as poetic gestures,” Christov-Bakargiev says. Penone’s meditative video Ephemeris (Eyelid) (2016) shows the artist caking his eyes with damp soil. Films by Ed Atkins, Jordan Wolfson and Francis Alÿs are also worth watching on lockdown, while William Kentridge’s video series, Drawing Lessons and What to Do Alone with Oneself (Artwork), shows the South African artist happily devising and developing his complex mechanical structures.

Words by The Art Newspaper.

Find William Kendridge’s work here.