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I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.

William Kentridge

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William Kentridge
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 28
Actor
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
William Joseph Kentridge
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