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25/10/2001

Rodney Graham

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

City Self/Country Self is the third in a trilogy of short films by Graham that includes Vexation Island, 1997 and How I Became A Ramblin’ Man, 1999. This four-minute travesty, or costume film, set in the 1860s in Senlis, France flips between an urban dandy and a provincial rustic both strolling down cobblestone streets unknowingly aimed towards a clinomatic encounter. Graham uses the tradition of the knockabout gag to comment on the unavoidable configuration of social order and the destructive power of repetition in filmic conventions.


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CITY SELF/COUNTRY SELF

Donald Young Gallery is pleased to announce the American premiere of Rodney Graham’s video projection City Self/Country Self, 2000.

City Self/Country Self is the third in a trilogy of short films by Graham that includes Vexation Island, 1997 and How I Became A Ramblin’ Man, 1999.
This four-minute travesty, or costume film, set in the 1860s in Senlis, France flips between an urban dandy and a provincial rustic both strolling down cobblestone streets unknowingly aimed towards a clinomatic encounter.
Despite the strangely conspicuous absence of the film’s motivation Graham’s aim is clear.
He uses the tradition of the knockabout gag to comment on the unavoidable configuration of social order and the destructive power of repetition in filmic conventions.
The intellectual foundation of Graham’s art is framed by his interest in Sigmund Freud whose own studies in systems and regulations led him into thoughts on neuroses.
The film’s circular narrative structure serves in part as metaphor for the Freudian notion that neuroses can be in one way explained by repetition replacing linear remembrances of the past.
What the film therefore lacks in resolve and orientation it makes up for in visual clarity and its keen reflection on the film industry’s tendency towards self-referentiality.
Also on view will be Graham’s new wallpaper based on the original 19th century etching from a children’s book that was the inspiration for the film.

Graham has gained international recognition for his work in both video and photography and has shown recently at Dia Center for the Arts, New York, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, and Kunstverein Münster, Munster. He is currently preparing for solo exhibitions at Whitechapel, London in Fall 2002, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee in December 2001 and a touring exhibition organized by Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario and Madison Arts Center, Madison for 2003.

The reception is free and open to the public.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 to 5:30 and Saturday, 11:00 to 5:30.

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Wednesday, November 21st and will remain closed through Monday, November 26th for the Thanksgiving Holiday.
The gallery will reopen at 10 am Tuesday, November 27th.

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