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Libretto: A Guided Tour of The Exhibition
William Kentridge:

Item date(s): 2016

William Kentridge
Oliver Barstow  - (typography by)


Pages: 1 folded sheet
Size: 277mm
Edition: #12/18


Place publication: White River, RSA
Publisher: The Artists' Press

Additional notes:
In 6 rooms. For Soprano. With Handbag.

Layered accordion fold.

Contained in a white clam-shell box with a single sheet colophon; numbered and with the Press chop.

The 39 panels (13 x 3) of William Kentridge's libretto were hand printed on a Takach lithographic press in black & red in,. Typography was done by Oliver Barstow of Fourthwall Books using Indesign. The Indesign files were output to film on an imagesetter and this film contact-exposed onto light sensitive aluminium lithographic plates from which the edition was printed.

Paper used is 100 gsm Zerkall Butten, supported by a base fabric of 100% cotton (200 thread count). The paper has been mounted on the cotton fabric using wheat starch paste.

18 Prints - numbered 1/18 to 18/18.

8 Prints - being proofs etc.

Numbered on the lower left hand panel and signed on the lower right hand panel by William Kentridge in 2016.

Printed by Mark Attwood, Jacky Tsila and Phumla Mabuza at The Artists' Press, White River.

Storage boxes made by Jana Pepin, White River.

Each panel is 265 x155mm. = 800 x 2050mm.

Exhibition notes:
Samplings: South African Artists' Books

Basement Gallery, WAM

26 March to 6 July 2019

WJK: In black and white and READ all over

JGCBA, WAM

22 June to 26 August 2022

Ref: GB/15441













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