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