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Rodney Graham
Essence of Smoke
- Estimate
- $20,000 - 30,000
$38,100
Lot Details
chromogenic transparencies and painted steel lightboxes, in 4 parts
each 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 4 in. (34.9 x 26 x 10.2 cm)
installed 13 3/4 x 47 1/2 x 4 in. (34.9 x 120.7 x 10.2 cm)
installed 13 3/4 x 47 1/2 x 4 in. (34.9 x 120.7 x 10.2 cm)
Executed in 2006, this work is number 1 from an edition of 12.
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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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