• Museum Frieder Burda Rodney Graham – Lightboxes
  • Museum Frieder Burda Rodney Graham – Lightboxes
  • Museum Frieder Burda Rodney Graham – Lightboxes
  • Museum Frieder Burda Rodney Graham – Lightboxes
  • Museum Frieder Burda Rodney Graham – Lightboxes

Museum Frieder Burda Rodney Graham – Lightboxes

Hardly any other contemporary artist has devoted himself to searching for traces left behind by different ways of life in the 19th and 20th centuries as the Canadian Rodney Graham (b. 1949). Since the 1970s, he has been working on a rhizome-like, conceptual oeuvre that has never shied away from new jumps in time or genre. His work combines film, photography, installation, performance, painting, literature, and music. Graham, who, along with artists such as Jeff Wall or Stan Douglas, belongs to the »Vancouver School«, appropriates styles, trends, and discourses from the era of romanticism through to post-modernity, commenting or expanding on them or rethinking them with an understated irony. This book, designed in close co-operation with the artist, accompanies the exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda. It presents Graham’s 36 photo light boxes from 2000 to the present, among them key works like the Newspaper Man. The central focus is on the manifold ways in which Graham has staged himself. He always gives the impression of a melancholy time traveler, a modern-day Buster Keaton, negotiating the trials and tribulations of modern culture in various guises and in doing so, slipping into the role of producer, observer or mediator.


Hardcover with dust jacket 23 x 28 cm 130 pages 108 color ills. and 16 b/w-ills. English, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-802-5 July 2017

Editor:

Stiftung Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

Texts:

Frieder Burda, Rodney Graham, Patricia Kamp, Dorothea Zwirner

Design:

Derek Barnett, Information Office, Vancouver


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Exhibitions

Getting it together in the Country
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK
28.01. – 08.05.2023

Rodney Graham - That's Not Me
IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
30.11.2017 – 30.04.2018

Rodney Graham – Lightboxes
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
08.07. – 26.11.2017

Rodney GrahamThat’s Not Me
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
17.03. – 11.06.2017

Rodney Graham
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar,
Netherlands
from 01.07.2017

 





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