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Fire walkerWilliam Kentridge

Fire walker

2011123 pages
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"In 2009, William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx were commissioned to make a public sculpture for the City of Johannesburg to be installed in time for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The sculpture is based on a drawing by Kentridge of a woman street vendor - known colloquially as a fire walker - carrying a burning brazier on her head. The eleven-metre-high striding figure would take her place at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge on a site formerly used by informal traders and taxi washers. Eschewing the bronze monumentalism of traditional public sculpture, Kentridge and Marx devised a figure made…

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  • Other · English · 2011
    Fourthwall Books · 123 pages · 9780986985027
Public artPublic sculptureKentridge, william, 1955-South africa, social conditions