Rodney Graham - New Now London Wednesday, December 6, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012

  • Exhibited

    Munich, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Rodney Graham: It's all black and white, 21 October - 19 November 2008, p. 7f (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Paris, Jeu de Paume, HF | RG [Harun Farocki | Rodney Graham], 7 April - 7 June 2009, p. 173 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Munich, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Liam Gillick, Rodney Graham, 1 April - 14 May 2011 (another example exhibited)

  • 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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Mini Rotary Pyscho Opticon

bicycle components, aluminium, plastic, steel, rubber and cork
231 x 200.7 x 226 cm (90 7/8 x 79 x 88 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2008, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for £8,890

Contact Specialist

Charlotte Gibbs
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now
+44 20 7901 7993
CGibbs@phillips.com
 

New Now

London Auction 6 December 2023