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Robin Rhode African Dream Root (detail) 2022, C-print 2 panels, each: 30.55 x 40.39 x .51 inches (framed)
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Robin Rhode African Dream Root (detail) 2022, C-print 2 panels, each: 30.55 x 40.39 x .51 inches (framed)
ROBIN RHODE
Proteus, 2020 (detail)
C-print
6 parts, each: 20.71 x 28.58 inches, 52.6 x 72.6 cm
Overall: 44.96 x 89.69 inches, 114.2 x 227.8 cm
ROBIN RHODE
Robin Rhode The Geometry of Colour
Skira, Milano 2019, 168 pagine, 269 ill. col., cm 25x29, ISBN: 88-572-3653-6
euro 40,00
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Robin Rhode's (born 1976) stunning, colorful works on a wall in Johannesburg, comprised of a mural, a performer and a photograph of the two, have turned to using the illusion of perfectibility inherent in geometry to tell global stories about displacement and capitalism.
18/04/25
Looking a. Some of Robin Rhode’s work I decided to do photography performance with one of my peers as a participant in title.
Am I trapped?
In this cage ‘AM I TRAPPED’
Some photos.
The participant looks uncomfortable and in some she looks happy,the question is is she trapped or is she happy to be cocooned in strips of plastic strips.
“ some people would call what I do performance art “ but I don’t like the term. I’m a sculptor who makes live work, and I was trying to develop the nature of what sculpture could be. I rather be thought as a dancer that a performance artist-and I’m a very good dancer.
‘ people think I’m lampooning Henry Moor- but I did that in another work called Fallen Warrior”
(The Guardian- interview by Karin Andreasson)
Bruce McLean age 76.
A leading figure in the development of the 1960s conceptual art, he started making sculptures from rubbish and debris. His breakthrough “POSE FOR PLINTHS’ attracted me to his work with the his awareness of how the plinths affected him. He said he tried to put his foot of his arm where the plinths determined, then it became a pose or an action that I did through out the day.
I used a model with my one sculpture and tried to let the sculpture determine where the body might go, this happened to some extent. I suppose it’s about relaxing and trusting instincts and figuring out things. It make me think about how I might behave in different spaces the confinements of the material and how my body reacts to that.
"In der Kunsthalle Krems sind die starken Fotosequenzen von Robin Rhode zu entdecken. Kamen die Soldaten aus dem Krieg zurück, erhielten sie ein Stück Land – vorausgesetzt, sie waren weißer Hautfarbe. Kehrten dagegen Soldaten nichtweißer Hautfarbe aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zurück, dann erhielten sie ein Fahrrad. Für Schwarze und Mitglieder der Coloured Communities, also Menschen mit gemischtrassigen Eltern oder Großeltern, ist das Fahrrad bis heute in Südafrika ein diskriminierungsgeschichtlich aufgeladenes Objekt...
Robin Rhode
(from to top to bottom )
1) Wall of Water, 2015. chromogenic print . 30.3x30.3 in ( 77x77 cm )
2) He got Game (in 12 part ) 2000, c-print, mntd to Plexiglas on aluminum panels. 22.2 x 29.9 cm. (8.7 x 11.8 in.
3) Untitled (in 9 parts ) 2008. c- print. 38.9 x 59.9 cm. (15.3 x 23.6 in.)
4) Twilight,( 8 parts) 2012-2013. Mounted cprint. 16.375 x 24.25 x 1.5 inches
5) Light Relief, 2015, photographs, c- print 27.24x40.39 in