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Robin Rhode
A major new talent on the international art scene, Robin Rhode has developed a growing reputation for brilliantly inventive performances, photographs and drawings, and for video animations in which he interacts in a remarkably realistic fashion with two-dimensional representations of everyday objects such as a bicycle or a car. The artist's source of inspiration and space for action is the street, where his work explores situations that evoke violence and post-apartheid racism in Johannesburg, as well as sports and children's games. Sharp-witted and often austerely beautiful, Rhode's deft do-it-yourself art uses the barest of means to comment on urban poverty, the politics of leisure, and the commodification of youth cultures. This book marks Rhode's first solo exhibition in Great Britain at The Hayward, London, 7 October - 7 December 2008.
Robin Rhode
Born in Cape Town and raised in Johannesburg, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Robin Rhode has gained steady international recognition for his simultaneously witty, playful and provocative photographic, video and installation works. Although Rhode's practice is highly conceptual, it is also informed by a wide range of references from everyday life and street culture, including hip hop and graffiti culture. Many of Rhode's works reflect the politics of his hometown Johannesburg and shine a light on issues such as the conceptions of identity, media stereotypes and personal relationship to place. The Call of Walls is the first major Australian showcase of Rhode's prolific and varied oeuvre. This exciting title features eleven of Rhode's signature sequential photographic works (alongside stills from his animation and film-based work), brilliantly showcased in a foldout plate section. Maggie Finch's engaging and comprehensive essay delves into Rhode's personal history and background, which, in turn, heavily informs his practice.
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Robin Rhode
The Cape Town-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Robin Rhode (born 1976) engages photography, performance, drawing and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives that are brought to life using materials such as soap, charcoal, chalk and paint. Coming of age in a newly post-apartheid South Africa, Rhode was exposed to new forms of creative expression motivated by the spirit of the individual rather than dictated by a political or social agenda. This new Hatje Cantz publication emphasizes the influence of Arte Povera on Rhode's aesthetic, whose creative dialogue also formed during his meeting with the gallery Tucci Russo and his early collaborative efforts with photographer Paolo Mussat Sartor, in which he transformed urban landscapes and interior spaces into imaginary worlds, as two-dimensional renderings become the subject of three-dimensional interactions by a sole protagonist (usually played by the artist or by an actor inhabiting the role of artist).
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Edited by Stephanie Rosenthal. Text by Stephanie Rosenthal, Thomas Boutoux, Andre Lepecki.
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Most famously shot against a ruined wall in Westbury, Johannesburg, Rhode's images cling nostalgically-yet-hopelessly to the particularity of a place in the very moment that longing is canceled out. Symptoms of exile, screeds for loss, they evoke a sentiment shared by the great Palestinian humanist, Edward Said, for whom 'A part of something is for the foreseeable future going to be better than all of it. Fragments over wholes. Restless nomadic activity over the settlements of held territory. Criticism over resignation ... limited independence over the status of clients. Attention, alertness, focus. To do as others do, but somehow stand apart. To tell a story in pieces, as it is.' In Geometr...
