Workseries & Editions William Kentridge
With his Trees, William Kentridge revisits one of the central motifs of his oeuvre – the tree as a symbol of memory, growth and rootedness. Since the early 1990s, trees have fre–quently appeared as a central element in the artist‘s drawings, films and stage designs – as a living archive of human experience that embodies both vulnerability and permanence. The combination of black ink and the yellowed pages of an old dictionary creates a ten- sion between language and nature, knowledge and transience, which precisely reflects Kentridge‘s artistic thinking.
The twelve unique pieces, created especially for the anniversary edition of Unikat XX, show variations on this theme: gnarled figures, some weathered by the wind, which as– sert themselves on the printed pages like memories in the flow of time. Each tree has the character of an improvised score – spontaneous, rhythmic, yet imbued with a deep poetic rigour.
In this series of works, Kentridge intensifies his exploration of drawing as a trace and a movement of thought. As in his animated films, the trees become witnesses to a conti– nuous process of becoming and passing away. They are rooted in paper, which itself is a carrier of history, and unfold as fragile signs of human existence.
- William Kentridge
- Lexicon of Trees: I-XII, 2025
- Indian ink on found pages
- Paper Size: 30.5 x 22.3 cm
- The price for each of the artworks is CHF 9,450
- Please send reservations and pre-orders to: mail@parteditions.ch.
If you would like to enrich your own collection with one of these master drawings by William Kentridge, priced at ten thousand Euros, your purchase will also support the work of his Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg – Kentridge‘s venue for inter- disciplinary experiments and the promotion of young artists – as well as the foundation projects part.education and Artists in the Classroom.
The series Five Heads for Zurich, 1916 comprises five sculptural prints in the form of three-dimensional lithographs of personalities who were in Zurich in 1916: the Dadaists Tristan Tzara, Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball, the writer James Joyce, and Vladimir Lenin. Dada and its aftermath run like a thread through Kentridge’s work – with a particular focus on language at the limits of its meaning.
The edition was produced in collaboration with Kentridge’s long-time companion Mark Attwood at The Artists’ Press in South Africa. All works in an edition of 35 copies are signed and numbered by the artist and bear the blind stamp of The Artists’ Press at the bottom edge, published in 2025 in co-publication with PArt Concept for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung/NZZ am Sonntag. The formats measure up to approx. 285 x 215 x 215 mm. The prints are executed in various techniques on different handmade papers. The sculptures stand on a wooden disc with magnetic fixation. Their collaged and partly torn elements give the sculptures a unique character.
The price for the set of five sculptures is CHF 17,500.
Please send reservations and pre-orders to: mail@parteditions.ch.
James Joyce
Emmy Hennings
Wladimir Lenin
Hugo Ball
Tristan Tzara
William Kentridge (born 1955 in Johannesburg) is one of the world’s most important and established contemporary artists. He works in the media of drawing, literature, film, performance, music, theatre and cross-media concepts. His work is rooted in politics, science, literature and history, and always leaves room for contradiction and uncertainty.
Since the 1990s, his work has been exhibited in international museums and galleries and is included in the collections of numerous important art museums and institutions. He has staged operas for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the English National Opera in London, the Sydney Opera House and the Salzburg Festival, among others. His own stage works combine performance, projections, shadow play, voice and music and currently include Refuse the Hour, The Head & the Load, Waiting for the Sibyl and The Great Yes, The Great No.
Kentridge has received honorary doctorates from several universities, including Yale, Columbia, Brown and the University of London. He has given public lecture series at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. His awards include the Kyoto Prize and the Praemium Imperiale (Japan), the Princesa de Asturias Award (Spain) and an Olivier Award (London). He is an honorary member of the Royal Academy in London and a foreign associate member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From September 2025, the Dresden State Art Collections and the Folkwang Museum will jointly present his retrospective exhibition Listen to the Echo.
The Headlines edition comprises six woodcuts reminiscent of street posters for newspapers, whose ambiguity echoes the Dadaist tradition. Texts from Tristan Tzara’s manifesto, Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate and a poem by Bertolt Brecht are combined with a reference to Kentridge’s own art centre, The Centre for the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg. The prints were created in collaboration with Sbongiseni Khulu at the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg. They were based on reproductions from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of 1 February 1916 from the Swiss National Library – the day the Cabaret Voltaire opened in Zurich, creating a direct link to the nucleus of the Dada movement. The printing blocks were made of ash and oak, cut entirely by hand except for one block, and printed with a red ink mixture. All six works are produced in an edition of 16 copies in 470 × 320 mm format on handmade paper.
The price for the set of six woodcuts is CHF 13,500.
Please send reservations and pre-orders to: mail@parteditions.ch.
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