William Kentridge & Gerhard Marx — Fire Walker (Fourthwall Books, 2011) — SIGNED by Both Artists In 2009, William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx were commissioned to create a public sculpture for the City of Johannesburg, installed in 2010 to coincide with the FIFA World Cup. Fire Walker — an eleven-metre-high steel figure of a street vendor carrying a burning brazier on her head — stands at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge in Johannesburg, on a site long used by informal traders and taxi washers. Eschewing the monumentalism of traditional public sculpture, Kentridge and Marx built the figure from flat steel plates that resolve into a coherent image from a single vantage point only — a pedestrian passing catches just a momentary view before it fragments into abstract black-and-white shapes. This book, published by Fourthwall Books in 2011, goes far beyond documenting a single artwork. Edited by Oliver Barstow and Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, it brings together essays by Mark Gevisser, Mpho Matsipa, Alexandra Dodd, and Jonathan Cane & Zen Marie, interviews with the sculpture's collaborators, and extraordinary photo essays on the construction process, street vendors, and Johannesburg's older public monuments — opening up a genuine conversation about the meaning and fragility of public space in the city. This copy is signed by both William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx on the title page, dated 2011. Format: Softcover, standard trade edition Publisher: Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg, 2011 Condition: good but see images of some wear to corners. Provenance: From the personal library of a UK-based collector with a long-standing interest in South African art and photography Kentridge is one of South Africa's most internationally celebrated contemporary artists, with work held in the collections of MoMA, Tate, and the Centre Pompidou. Dual-signed copies of this title are scarce — Strauss & Co and Aspire Art have both handled signed Fire Walker material as dedicated lots at auction. Shipped securely, tracked postage. Please get in touch with any questions before bidding.