
Robin Rhode
Memory Is The Weapon
Uta Ruhkamp(Editor)
Robin Rhode(Artist)
Hatje Cantz Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 2019
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-3-7757-4605-2 (ISBN)
Description
Robin Rhode's trademark is the wall. His works are influenced by urban music culture, film, popular sports, youth culture, and traditional South African storytelling. They are created in the public space, on walls. It's not about the statement that he leaves behind on the street, though-it's about the process. Hence, in his visual short stories he captures the links between drawing, performance, and sculpture, step by step. No body without a line, no line without a body. With drawing as his starting point, he develops increasingly complex photographic works, digital animations, performances, sculptures, and works on paper, which comprise a content-related balancing act between South African history, culture, mindset, signs, and codes and the abstract language of European-American art history. This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies Rhode's first solo show in twelve years in Germany. Besides pictures of the art itself, the book also contains an interview, an introductory essay, and poems by South African authors, to which his work often refers.
Robin Rhode (*1976, Cape Town) was awarded the 2018 Zurich Art Prize. He has lived in Berlin since 2002.
Exhibition:
September 28, 2019-February 9, 2020
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Robin Rhode (*1976, Cape Town) was awarded the 2018 Zurich Art Prize. He has lived in Berlin since 2002.
Exhibition:
September 28, 2019-February 9, 2020
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The KUNSTMUSEUM WOLFSBURG has been collecting international contemporary art since 1994. With the acquisition of key works of late modernism and important additions from contemporary art, a top-class collection has been built up. Parallel to this, the museum presents an ambitious exhibition program, tracing cultural connections for the public. The exhibition On Everyone's Lips is curated by UTA RUHKAMP.
ROBIN RHODE (*1976, Cape Town) was awarded the 2018 Zurich Art Prize. He has lived in Berlin since 2002.
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Language
English
German
Place of publication
Ostfildern
Germany
Edition type
Bilingual edition
Product notice
Trade binding
Illustrations
167 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
250 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 32 cm
Width: 25 cm
Thickness: 3 cm
Weight
1620 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7757-4605-2 (9783775746052)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
ISNI: 0000 0004 4958 7260
Artist
ROBIN RHODE (*1976, Kapstadt) wurde 2018 mit dem Zurich Art Prize ausgezeichnet. Er lebt seit 2002 in Berlin.
ISNI: 0000 0000 8153 213X
ISNI: 0000 0000 8153 213X
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Contributions
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Foreword