Robin Rhode: Variants

Robin Rhode

ISBN 10: 1906072485 / ISBN 13: 9781906072483

Published by White Cube, 2012

About this Item

THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Robin Rhode: Variants is an illustrated exhibition catalogue published to accompany the 2011 Variants exhibition at White Cube, London. The book documents the South African artist Robin Rhodeā?Ts exploration of performance, photography, animation and drawing, capturing the works shown in the exhibition with high-quality reproductions and texts. Essays, typically including one by critic Skye Sherwin, provide insight into Rhodeā?Ts creative process and the conceptual frameworks behind the works, especially his playful re-interpretation of everyday objects (such as Rietveld chairs) and his blending of street culture with modernist motifs. The catalogue situates the exhibition within Rhodeā?Ts broader artistic practice and contemporary visual arts discourse.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Robin Rhode: Variants
• Publisher: White Cube
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906072485
• ISBN 13: 9781906072483
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

For his second exhibition at White Cube, Rhode presented five animations that take the chair designs of Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld as a starting point. A member of the De Stijl movement, Rietveld aspired to bring high design to the masses. A precursor to the 'flat pack' furniture style now prevalent, Rietveld's designs 'advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour'.