William KentridgeGuestChantal PattynHostCan you imagine you were born in the States? Maybe you should have become an oil painter.
What that meant was that for me as an artist working in South Africa, I had no expectation that my work would be seen outside of South Africa.
And the blessing of that was that I was not terrorized by the international art magazines.
If you're an art student, there's the, how do I make it? How am I gonna get seen? How will I be known? Let's look what's in art in America.
So because there was no expectation of that, it was fine for me to go on making these stupid charcoal animated films and charcoal drawings and not working in oil paint or in acrylic.
And then when democracy came to South Africa in 1994 and suddenly curators and people in the art world came to South Africa, I'd already found my way of working.
Can you imagine you were born in the States? Maybe you should have become an oil painter.
What that meant was that for me as an artist working in South Africa, I had no expectation that my work would be seen outside of South Africa.
And the blessing of that was that I was not terrorized by the international art magazines.
If you're an art student, there's the, how do I make it? How am I gonna get seen? How will I be known? Let's look what's in art in America.
So because there was no expectation of that, it was fine for me to go on making these stupid charcoal animated films and charcoal drawings and not working in oil paint or in acrylic.
And then when democracy came to South Africa in 1994 and suddenly curators and people in the art world came to South Africa, I'd already found my way of working.
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