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Lubaina Himid reincarnates a pioneering show, the South African artist re-energises sculpture and Vincent goes head to head with Anselm Kiefer

From a goat sculpture to a giant bronze ampersand, via a filmed argument about sardines between two Kentridges, there is no rest for this dazzling artist’s imagination

South African artist William Kentridge became world famous for his charcoal drawings and hand-drawn animated films, but his work continued to grow in scope and he began staging performances. Today he also creates operas and collaborative stage productions combining numerous art forms.

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There are good ideas in this collection of pieces from William Kentridge’s experimental performance studio but they lack depth and development

The spectres of oppression and its victims in his country and beyond are conjured by the South African artist William Kentridge in an epic show spanning 40 years

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Forty years of work whirl before us, the violence of apartheid, inequality and brutality underpinning it all, as Kentridge’s drawn images merge into animations, filmed performance and sculpture