Robin Rhode: Memory is the Weapon

Ruhkamp, Uta

ISBN 10: 3775746056 / ISBN 13: 9783775746052

Published by Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag/Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2019

About this Item

Original pictorial boards, numerous (full page) colour and b/w illustrations, (including photographs), 4to.

Seller Inventory # 336082-WB9

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Robin Rhode: Memory is the Weapon
• Publisher: Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag/Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775746056
• ISBN 13: 9783775746052
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

South African artist Robin Rhode’s (born 1976) trademark material is the wall. Influenced by urban music culture, film, popular sports, youth culture and traditional South African storytelling, his works are created on public walls. Rhode’s concern is not with the finished visual statement left behind on the street, however, but the process itself. Consequently, in his visual short stories, he captures the overlap between drawing, performance and sculpture, step by step. With drawing as his starting point, Rhode develops increasingly complex photographic works, digital animations, performances, sculptures and works on paper, which comprise a balancing act between South African history, culture, signs and codes, and the abstract language of European American art history.

Alongside reproductions of the art itself, Memory Is the Weapon also contains an interview, an introductory essay and poems by South African authors to whom his work often refers.