Rodney Graham
dal 20/10/2010 al 29/1/2011
Segnalato da
20/10/2010
Rodney Graham
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
The exhibition entitled 'Through the Forest' provides insight into the development of his complex body of work. It brings together close to 100 works by the Canadian artist. Dating between 1978 and 2008, they come from important private and public collections in Europe and North America. Graham's interdisciplinary work embraces a variety of media: books, video, sculpture, painting, installation and music. His work, which is influenced by 1970s Conceptual art, lie in the adaptation of literary models.
Curator Sabrina van der Ley
Canadian artist Rodney Graham’s exhibition entitled Through the Forest provides insight into the development of his complex body of work. The roots of Graham’s work, which is influenced by 1970s Conceptual art and its way of thinking, lie in the adaptation of literary models. Born in 1949 in Abbotsford, a small town in British Columbia, Canada, Graham and his family moved to Vancouver in 1964. From 1968 to 1971, he studied art history and anthropology, as well as English and French literature, at the University of British Columbia.
This exhibition brings together close to 100 works by the Canadian artist Rodney Graham. Dating between 1978 and 2008, they come from important private and public collections in Europe and North America. Graham’s interdisciplinary work embraces a variety of media: books, video, sculpture, painting, installation and music. His use of appropriation allows him to pay tribute to some important artists, writers, philosophers and pop musicians, though not without respectfully and ironically demystifying their undoubtedly substantial influence and offering us a new take on the worlds they describe. Sigmund Freud, Donald Judd, Edgar Allan Poe, Georg Büchner, Jeff Wall, Pablo Picasso – they all figure in Rodney Graham’s work as material or conceptual reference.
The Exhibition is organized by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in cooperation with the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel and Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Image: Rheinmetall / Victoria 8, 2003 (Detail), 35 mm film, 35 mm Cinemeccanica Victoria 8 Projektor für 35mm Filme und Filmschleifen. 10:50 min., ohne Ton. Auflage/Edition of: 5 + A.P.
Credit line: Collecció d'Art Contemporani de la Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona
Copyright: Rodney Grahm 2009
Press contact
Mira Forte Tel. +49 (0)40 428131204 Fax +49 (0)40 428542978 forte@hamburger-kunsthalle.de
Press conference: Thursday, 21 October 2010, h 11am
with Hubertus Gaßner, Sabrina van der Ley and Rodney Graham
Opening: Thursday, 21 October 2010, h 7pm
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Galerie der Gegenwart
Glockengießerwall D-20095 Hamburg
Opening hours:
Tuesdays to Sundays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursdays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Mondays closed
Admission:
Adults € 10
Concessions € 5
Family Day Ticket € 14
Children and teenager under 18 years free entrance