Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The MCA is co-organizing South African artist William Kentridge's first survey exhibition in the United States. Kentridge is internationally-renowned for his animated films, drawings, and theater productions that focus on the complex and often violent history of his native South Africa and consider the effect its past will have on its future. This major exhibition will present eleven of Kentridge's powerful short animated films or "drawings for projection," the majority of which chronicle the ongoing narrative of two characters struggling within the apartheid and post-apartheid landscapes. A new film will premiere with the opening of this exhibition. Approximately fifty large-scale charcoal drawings utilized in the making of the films will be shown alongside the projections in addition to a selection of related earlier graphic works.