Hardcover. Most famously shot against a ruined wall in Westbury, Johannesburg, Rhode's images cling nostalgically-yet-hopelessly to the particularity of a place in the very moment that longing is canceled out. Symptoms of exile, screeds for loss, they evoke a sentiment shared by the great Palestinian humanist, Edward Said, for whom 'A part of something is for the foreseeable future going to be better than all of it. Fragments over wholes. Restless nomadic activity over the settlements of held territory. Criticism over resignation . limited independence over the status of clients. Attention, alertness, focus. To do as others do, but somehow stand apart. To tell a story in pieces, as it is.' In Geometry of Colour, however, Rhode presents us with an even greater challenge - the mystic search for wholeness in the very midst of its impossibility.For Rhode the glimmer of an answer resides in geometry - the necessary illusion of perfectibility. Moving between abstract speculation and visceral record, the book tracks productive years in the artist's life, between 2014 and 2018. More a wager in the present tense than an edifying catalogue, Geometry of Colour is a vital challenge to our current disaffection. It is a testimony, perhaps, that art can still save us. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Robin Rhode: The Geometry of Colour (Hardcover)
Publisher: Skira, Milan
Publication Date: 2019
Language: English
ISBN 10: 8857236536
ISBN 13: 9788857236537
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new

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Robin Rhode's (born 1976) stunning, colorful works on a wall in Johannesburg, comprised of a mural, a performer and a photograph of the two, have turned to using the illusion of perfectibility inherent in geometry to tell global stories about displacement and capitalism.

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