Robin Rhode

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Variants

Robin Rhode at White Cube

Ten years ago Robin Rhode made his first trip to London: he attempted to hijack a car, failed, then promptly ran away, leaving behind the sound of an alarm and confused applause. A few months later Rhode returned to Tony Blair’s capital, attempted to kick-start a lifeless motorcycle outside the Gasworks artists’ studios where he was doing a residency, failed, and again ran away from his wall-drawn fiction, the applause this time a little louder. A decade later Rhode is now exhibiting his scored digital animations and monochromatic still life photographs at one of London’s premier commercial galleries. What happened? Progress. 

 

08 June 2011 - 09 July 2011

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'Variants'

Robin Rhode at White Cube

For his second exhibition at White Cube, Rhode presents five animations that take the chair designs of Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld as a starting point. A member of the De Stijl movement, Rietveld aspired to bring high design to the masses. A precursor to the 'flat pack' furniture style now prevalent, Rietveld's designs 'advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour'.

08 June 2011 - 09 July 2011

'Prism. Drawings from 1990 to 2012'

Penny Siopis, Robin Rhode and William Kentridge at Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

Rather than exhibiting drawings in a classical sense, the exhibition 'Prism', curated by Gavin Jantjes, presents drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing.

The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. In order for drawing and its new forms and variants to survive as an autonomous art form, it is essential that we take a closer look at the ongoing experimentation.

The exhibition features everything from digital drawings to drawing as performance, from sculptural paperwork to pictures made with needlework on fabric. We are also presented with works that reveal a more conceptual approach to the medium: What is a drawing? And what is a copy of a drawing? Or what is reality, and what is a representation of reality? The artists thereby problematise and experiment with different levels and aspects of the age-old discipline.

02 March 2012 - 05 August 2012

'Mine'

Berni Searle, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Gregg Smith, Johan Thom, Robin Rhode, Bridget Baker, Various Artists, William Kentridge and Nandipha Mntambo at Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre

The first exhibition of contemporary South African art in the UAE, 'Mine' is curated by South African artist, photographer and curator Abrie Fourie, who explains the concept behind the exhibition: 'The title refers not only to the idea of deep level mining, but to the concept of personal ownership. The works featured have been chosen for their diversity, with the common denominator that the artists make reference to themselves in their work, either in person, as actor, model, observer, interviewer or instigator. Mine seeks to explore the myriad ways in which we identify and position our "selves".'

Artists featured in this video exhibition include: Berni Searle, Bridget Baker, Cedric Nunn, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Donna Kukama, Doris Bloom, Dorothee Kreutzfelt, Gregg Smith, Jaques Coetzer, Johan Thom, Lerato Shadi, Michael McCarry, Minette Vari, Nandipha Mntambo, Penny Siopis, Robin Rhode, Simon Gush, Teboho Edkins, William Kentridge, Zanele Muholi

18 January 2012 - 06 February 2012