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