Staffrider Vol.3 No.1 Feb 1980 - DISA

Staff rider GalleryWilliam Kentridge24William Kentridge's exhibition of etchings and monoprints, held at the Market Gallery recently, show him to be an emergingforce in South African visual arts. Conceptually and technically his works are striking, especially his series of twenty monoprintswhich work on a metaphorical level as images of white isolation in South Africa. His satirical neo-Renaissance figures,caught in a variety of contorted postures, symbolise the alienation of enclosed white society in South Africa.The brooding figures peering into the cell-like space give a powerful sense of the excluded masses, and the relationship set upbetween these dark figures and the inhabitants of the closed interior is a powerful metaphor for South African social relatt0m'Andy MasonSTAFFRIDER, FEBRUARY 1980