Waiting to Forget Something

On Wednesday, july 10, 11:30 a.m. at the LUMA Arles there will be a conversations between William Kentridge and Homi K. Bhabha. The discussion will follow the world premiere of the chamber opera The Great Yes, The Great No, presented this summer at the Grande Halle. Artist William Kentridge and theorist Homi K. Bhabha, one of the leading thinkers on postcolonialism, will discuss the major themes that run through Kentridge's work, including the connections between surrealism and the literary movement of Negritude, as well as migration and anti-colonial struggles of the World War II era.  

• La Grande Halle, Parc des Ateliers
• 35 avenue Victor Hugo 13200 Arles
• 10 luglio 2024

This evening will feature a unique series of animations and films hand selected by the artist to illuminate his work and methodology.  Introduced and each one contextualized by William Kentridge himself the evening is full of wild possibilities. With support from the LUMA Foundation. THU 04 JULY 2024   21H45

• THÉATRE ANTIQUE
• 1B rue de la Calade, 13200 Arles
• 4 luglio 2024

The by now customary dialogue with the contemporary is entrusted to the work "Paradoxes of Abundance #51 (big wave)", 2023, by Marzia Migliora, part of a cycle of drawings that the artist has created in recent years and that investigate the relationship between food production, commodity and surplus value of the capitalist model and the exploitation of human, animal and natural resources.

• MAO
• Via San Domenico 11, Turin
• 13 giugno 2024 – 5 gennaio 2025

William Kentridge will debut at LUMA Arles this summer, the exhibition Je n’attends plus (I am Not Waiting Any Longer) presents a group of major works, some of which have not been seen in Europe before. Dealing with issues of migration, oppression, racial relations, the transmission of history, and the role of the artist in a society under duress, the exhibition brings together a remarkable body of experimental and performative work.

• LUMA Arles
• Parc des Ateliers, 35 avenue Victor Hugo, 13200 Arles
• 30 giugno 2024

March 1941: a cargo ship leaves Marseille for Martinique with, on board, several artists and intellectuals escaping from Vichy France, including André Breton, Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. The wonderful visual artist William Kentridge launches the spectator on to one of his artistic, political and spiritual adventures of which he alone holds the secret: a chamber opera inspired by the avant-gardes of the time, mixing the surreal and irrational (masks, collages, projections) and engaging dancers, performers, chorus members and instrumentalists in a vast web of musical styles, especially African and Caribbean.

• LUMA Arles
• Parc des Ateliers, 35 avenue Victor Hugo, 13200 Arles
• 7 – 10 luglio 2024

The project takes its title from the 1986 novel by Enzo Striano, which recounts the life story of Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel, and the revolution of 1799 that led to the birth of the short-lived Neapolitan Republic. Between subjectivity and history, the book explores the possibility of social and anthropological change during an era of significant transformation in Naples. The exhibition begins by looking at the work of one of the most visionary figures of the Italian architectural scene in the second half of the twentieth century, Aldo Loris Rossi.

• Museo Madre, Museo d'arte contemporanea Donnaregina
• Via Luigi Settembrini 79, 80139 Naples
• 30 maggio – 29 luglio 2024