Rodney Graham

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Rodney Graham (* 16th January 1949 in Matsqui, now part of Abbotsford , British Columbia ) is a Canadian artist , quasi example of the work of the Art of Modern and analyzed simultaneously their replacement by modernity.

Life

Rodney Graham moved to Vancouver with his family in 1964 . He studied art history , from 1968 to 1971 at the University of British Columbia and then from 1978 to 1979 at Simon Fraser University .

Oeuvre

Rodney Graham has created a multi-layered oeuvre since the mid-1970s, which he has realized in an abundance of different media such as film, photography, installation, painting, printmaking, literature and music. With a lot of poetic irony, refinement and conceptual originality, the artist visualizes relationships between the various levels of everyday life and cultural history. He examines and reflects on artistic, musical and literary works and events in intellectual history from all epochs and creates a complex work between reality and fiction. The works deal, among other things, with central personalities of the culture of the 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g. Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Wagner , Raymond Roussel or Sigmund Freud and his dream of the botanical monograph ) or reflect popular myths of the cinema . Graham subjects the works he uses for his own art to a sympathetic criticism from the inside out and thus transforms them. Often his art refers to cinematic clichés or familiar elements of popular music. Repetition plays a central role in Graham's work as a formal and structural principle, not only in his films, but also in many other works.

Rodney Graham's work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, including a. in the retrospective from 2004 to 2005 (MoCA Los Angeles, ICA Philadelphia, Vancouver Art Gallery and others), in the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London (2002), in the Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin (2001) and in 2006/7 in the Sprengel Museum (Hanover). He has participated in Documenta IX (1992), the Venice Biennale (1997 and 2003) and the Whitney Biennale in New York.

In 2010 the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona , the Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel and the Hamburger Kunsthalle presented the Rodney Graham exhibition . Through the forest .

From July 8 to November 26, 2017, the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden will be showing the artist's light box images in a solo exhibition.

Awards

In 2006, Graham won the Kurt Schwitters Prize for Fine Art from the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation .

Exhibition catalog

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Müller: Our yesterday, shock frozen . In: Stefan Aust (Ed.): Die Welt Kompakt . Welt24 GmbH, Berlin August 10, 2017, p. 10, 11 .
personal data
SURNAME Graham, Rodney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Matsqui , British Columbia