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South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has become famous for his time-lapse animation movies and installations, as well as his activities as an opera and theater director. This book offers a unique selection of Kentridge’s work curated for Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges—at 800 years one of Europe’s oldest surviving hospital buildings – organized around the themes of trauma, healing, and compassion.  The book features an introduction by Margaret K. Koerner, and also includes essays by diverse distinguished contributors: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh considers Kentridge’s alternate reception of the historical avant-garde from a perspective of exile; Joseph Leo Koerner explores the artist’s work as a self-styled process of ""working through"" in which the past simultaneously disfigures and redeems; and Harmon Siegel examines Kentridge’s approach to film history.     Distributed for Mercatorfonds Exhibition Schedule: Groeningemuseum, Bruges (10/21/17-02/25/18)

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Margaret K. Koerner is a specialist in Northern Renaissance painting. 

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