The Economist   Even as he first made his name with his charcoal drawings in the 1970s and 1980s, William Kentridge resented the limitations of his craft. To the young artist he was then, working on his own in a studio in South Africa felt stifling. So he branched o

Convinced that the ethical duty of every artist is to question the pillars of the dogma with the tools of uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction, William Kentridge (South Africa, 1955) has built a varied creative discourse that has turned him into

The work of the South African William Kentridge, born in Johanessburg in 1955 and winner of this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, will be on view at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid through 19 March 2018, in an exhibition whose subtitl