Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation (DVD)

US Import

William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas - two of the most celebrated names in international contemporary art - come face to face in a series of frank, witty, and intense discussions about their work and practice. The film follows them from the gentle ambiance of a dinner conversation to their studios - where we are given insight into the each artist - to some of their finished works. and installations. What emergations. es how very different these two highly successful South African artists approach image-making. Dumas' method is deeply intuitive - she often works on the floor as though embracing her paintings, pouring and dabbing paint to produce her remarkable portraits. Kentridge is intensely systematic, alternating gestural mark-making with the repetitive action of drawing-filming-erasing for his animated films. In Conversation", William and Marlene talk about their choice of content in reference to self-portraits, pornography, sexuality, the close-up, landscape, politics, and death.