William Kentridge, Table with Sparrow, 2019, Digital print on Hannemuela German etching paper
154.5 x 111.5 cm (image size)
163 x 120.5 cm (paper size)
Edition of 25 with AP and 1 HC
Signed by the artist
Printed by Scan Shop, Cape Town
An interest in optics and the construct of seeing informs William Kentridge’s experiments with stereoscopic vision, of which Table with Sparrow forms a part. In order to achieve the illusion of stereoscopic vision, a drawing or construction is photographed twice, with the focal points about 7.5 centimetres apart – roughly the distance between the pupils of a person’s eyes. The use of the stereopticon—an optical viewer that creates the illusion of three-dimensionality when viewing two nearly identical images side by side—transforms these two images into a three-dimensional experience in the viewer’s perception, as they are translated into the complex neural patterns of the brain.
Table with Sparrow translates the set of small photographic images inserted into a stereopticon, as seen in Kentridge’s earlier Double Vision (2007), into two largescale drawings forming a diptych and was subsequently made into an editioned work by the artist.
The drawing Table with Sparrow (2019) was included in Norval Foundation’s Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture, the first retrospective exhibition of William Kentridge’s sculptural practice. This work was donated by the artist to Norval Foundation to support their educational and artistic programming.
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