Arion Press Presents THE LULU PLAYS with South African Artist William Kentridge

By: Sep. 14, 2015
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Arion Press announces The Lulu Plays with esteemed South African artist William Kentridge for September 2015. One of Arion's most ambitious artist books, this limited edition contains 67 drawings by William Kentridge bound into the book. The text is the original telling of the Lulu story by playwright Frank Wedekind, which inspired the silent cinema classic Pandora's Box and the Alban Berg opera Lulu.

Another four larger images, linoleum block prints, are available separately in a portfolio.

The images are derived from brush and ink drawings for projections for Kentridge's 2015 production of Alban Berg's opera Lulu, which was based on the two Wedekind plays from the turn of the century, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box. Lulu opens at the Metropolitan Opera on November 5, sung in German and conducted by James Levine. On October 13, 2015, at 6:30 p.m., Kentridge and publisher Andrew Hoyem will hold a conversation about the Arion project at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.

Kentridge drew with brush and ink on dictionary pages. The definitions are in the background but the opening and closing words, in larger type, can be read. Often, after drawing, Kentridge moves the sheets, rearranging elements of the drawings so that they become collages and can resemble moving pictures. The appearance of the drawings on pages of the book is very different from the much larger versions in the opera set, where sometimes only a detail is used and images can be altered by the surfaces on which they are projected, as well as fractured or distorted by the planes and interfering elements of the scenery.

Arion Press's The Lulu Plays will be on view in September in San Francisco and at the IFPDA Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory on November 4 through 8, 2015.

Download the full prospectus in PDF format.

Schedule of fall NYC events for Kentridge Lulu

- See more at: http://www.arionpress.com/catalog/104.htm#sthash.xrrvp7Lz.dpuf



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