Stephen G. Rhodes : Apologies (English/German)

Edited by Raphael Gygax and Heike Munder. Texts by Raphael Gygax, Brian Price, John David Rhodes, Stephen G. Rhodes, Laurence A. Rickels, Keston Sutherland

ISBN 10: 3037643153 / ISBN 13: 9783037643150

Published by JRP | Ringier / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2013

About this Item

Z : 18 x 23,5 cm, Hardcover, 282 Seiten/pages, 173 color & 45 b/w illustrations - The installations of American artist Stephen G. Rhodes (born 1977 in Houston, lives and works in New Orleans and Berlin), which are distinguished by the combination of diverse media, are based on selected references from a wide range of historical and cultural sources, including the American past and the histories of art and film, which he fuses into a new and dense semantic system. In the cycle of works Rhodes presented in 2009 under the title Dar Allers war ne'er eny Bear Bear at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, for example, he linked Walt Disney's Song of the South (1946), a movie adaptation of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories, which are in turn based on the oral histories of the slaves on the plantations of the American South, to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980). Building such connections allows him to take up the repressed depths of the American past and place them in new contexts.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1591102982681

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stephen G. Rhodes : Apologies (English/German)
• Publisher: JRP | Ringier / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037643153
• ISBN 13: 9783037643150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Contemporary art
  • Installations
  • Monographie

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Synopsis

Apologies is the first monograph on Berlin-based artist Stephen G. Rhodes (born 1977), looking at works from the last ten years. Rhodes’ multimedia installations are often based on American cultural references such as the Uncle Remus stories that he politicizes through references to slavery.