WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot

836pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Hauser & Wirth Publishers, (New York), 2025

ISBN: 9783907493120

The print companion to William Kentridge's nine-part film series, Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot, in which the artist enters into dialogue with himself, revealing "both the processes of the studio and the thinking led by those processes."

The book interweaves drawings and pages from his notebooks with stills and the complete script.

William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg) is internationally acclaimed for his artworks, theater and opera productions. His method combines drawing and erasing, tearing, gestural painting, collage, weaving, casting, writing, film, performance, music, theater and collaborative practices.