William Kentridge - Five heads for Zurich, 1916 - 2025
Exclusively for the NZZ, William Kentridge created the edition "Five Heads for Zurich, 1916", a series of sculptural prints. These three-dimensional lithographs portray five personalities who were in Zurich in 1916: the Dadaists Tristan Tzara, Emmy Hennings and Hugo Ball, the writer James Joyce and Vladimir Lenin. Kentridge himself once played Tristan Tzara in Tom Stoppard's theatre play Travesties, which is also set in Zurich in 1916. Dada and the limits of language are an ongoing artistic theme for him.
Medium: Two-colour lithograph with collage
Size: approx. 26.4 × 21.5 × 15.2 cm each
Edition of 35 + 4 AP
signed and numbered
Available in a set of 5
price: CHF 17,500
This William Kentridge work is available at NZZ
