Rodney Graham - Saturday @ Phillips London Friday, September 5, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galleria Sergio Casoli, Milan

  • Artist Biography

    Rodney Graham

    Canadian • 1949

    Rodney 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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Diptych: River Still

1988
C-print, flush mounted on aluminium.
Each 86 x 160 cm. (33 7/8 x 63 in.)
Each signed, dated and inscribed on reverse of the mount.

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for £10,000

Saturday @ Phillips

6 Sept 2008, 12pm
London