2nd Floor

Finally, accompanying Notes Towards a Model Opera on the second floor of the exhibition hall is a reading room where viewers can page through a selection of William Kentridge’s artist books and short films. Among them, a set of flipbooks including the monumental 2nd Hand Reading offer a new format for the artist to explore the relationship between drawing, filmmaking, and photography. The reading room also incorporates a group of Kentridge’s Drawing Lessons, quasi-didactic short films on making art in the studio that, in his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, contain equal parts pedagogy and art.