Title: Lexicon
Medium: Bronze
Date: 2017
“Well, all of these things I’ve drawn over the years must add up to some version of who I am” – William Kentridge (Zeitz MOCAA 2020:41).
The sculpture installation, Lexicon, is made up of recognised images often used in Kentridge’s work over the years. These recurrent images include the carrier pigeon, a pre-radar listening device, a gas mask, a war horse, and a tank to a cat, reclining nude, flowers, a fan, and German artist Albrecht Durer’s rhinoceros. Kentridge manipulates his figures like chess pieces, each move impacting how we read the next, each outcome in the game of unique (Sculpture Milwaukee 2018:1).
