ABSTRACT This essay traces the artistic collaborations between William Kentridge and two Johannesburg-based printmaking studios: Artist Proof Studio (APS) and the David Krut Print Workshop (DKW). It is intentionally descriptive, in order to document the process of collaboration between the artist and master printers in the making of a series of composite prints based on Kentridge’s 2016 Tiber River frieze, Triumphs and Laments. Although video documentation exists of the rehearsals of Kentridge’s performance works, little attention has been paid to the nature of his collaborations in the making of his prints. Whereas artists will often make a plate and then leave the printing entirely up to the master printers, in this instance, the technical and aesthetic complexity of each of the ten prints in the Triumphs and Laments series required intensive interaction between artist and printer. Although the two studios have different missions—APS trains and educates printmakers and DKW prints the work of the gallery’s artists—both are committed to the creative processes involved in artistic collaboration. The premise that printmaking is a collaborative medium is thus confirmed. Finally, all of the prints’ subjects are taken from different sections of the frieze, but the content of each echoes Kentridge’s assertion that “it’s not just to say history is problematic and complicated, but that inside one person’s triumph is someone else’s disaster” (in Triumphs and Laments: William Kentridge. Edited by Carlos Basualdo. Cologne: Walter Koenig, 2018, 51).

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威廉·肯特里奇的胜利与哀叹：合作的挑战与乐趣

摘要 本文追溯了 William Kentridge 与两个位于约翰内斯堡的版画工作室之间的艺术合作：Artist Proof Studio (APS) 和 David Krut Print Workshop (DKW)。它是有意描述的，目的是记录艺术家和印刷大师之间合作制作一系列基于肯特里奇 2016 年台伯河楣、胜利和悲叹的复合印刷品的过程。尽管存在关于肯特里奇表演作品排练的视频文件，但很少有人关注他在制作版画方面的合作性质。而艺术家通常会制作一个印版，然后将印刷完全交给主印刷商，在这种情况下，Triumphs and Laments 系列中的十幅版画中每幅的技术和美学复杂性都需要艺术家和印刷商之间的密切互动。尽管这两个工作室有着不同的使命——APS 培训和教育版画家，而 DKW 印刷画廊艺术家的作品——但两者都致力于艺术合作中涉及的创作过程。因此确认版画是一种协作媒介的前提。最后，所有版画的主题都取自楣的不同部分，但每一个的内容都与肯特里奇的断言相呼应：“不仅仅是说历史是有问题和复杂的，而且一个人的胜利是另一个人的灾难”（在《胜利与哀叹》中：威廉·肯特里奇。由卡洛斯·巴苏尔多编辑。科隆：沃尔特·科尼格，2018 年，51）。