Africa: Drama On Canvas - William Kentridge Takes African Stories to Hamburg

23 October 2020

William Kentridge is South Africa's best-known artist. But what makes his work so alluring? An exhibition in Hamburg finds out by tracing each stroke of his brush.

The question "What is African Art?" elicits myriad responses from each of the continent's 54 countries. But in the context of South Africa, the question is especially complicated by its colonial past and the more recent Apartheid era.

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