Im Albertinum
Saxon margraves, electors, and kings await Kentridge at the Albertinum. Mounted on horseback, accompanied by a few subjects, they form the Dresden “Procession of the Princes”. In the exhibition, they encounter a procession of shadowy human forms in the cinematic installation titled “More Sweetly Play the Dance” (2015), in which the figures move through a barren landscape guided by the lively sounds of a brass band. A second film, “Oh to Believe in Another World” (2022), addresses the limited durability of utopias. Drawing directly on the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Kentridge has created a fictional collage of images that closely illustrates the rise and fall of the Russian avant-garde during four decades of Soviet rule, revealing the fragile relationship between power and art.
