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Rodney Graham
Paradoxical Western Scene
- Estimate
- $40,000 - 60,000
$56,250
Lot Details
painted aluminum lightbox with transmounted chromogenic transparency
58 1/8 x 48 3/4 x 7 in. (147.6 x 123.8 x 17.8 cm.)
Executed in 2006, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof.
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“I mainly use [mise en abyme] for comic effects in pieces like Paradoxical Western Scene (2006), which is a pastiche of two record album covers, one by Marty Robbins and the other by Peter Sellers. I have been influenced a lot by album covers..." Rodney Graham
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Rodney Graham
Canadian | 1949Rodney Graham pulls from cultural and intellectual history through photography, film, music, performance and painting. He presents narratives with puns and references to literature and philosophy, including Sigmund Freud and Kurt Cobain, with a sense of humor that contradicts his residence in the post-punk scene of late 1970s Vancouver.In his film trilogy Vexation Island (1999), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999) and City Self/Country Self (2001), the artist plays characters like a castaway and a cowboy caught in repetitive cycles of actions and gestures. Such unconscious dream states are further explored in Graham's series of upside-down photographs of oak trees, which are hung to mimic camera obscura.
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