Rodney Graham. (Preview).WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY Roll up, roll up, and see backward-bicyclist Rodney Graham Born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, in 1949, Rodney Graham is an artist frequently linked with 'photoconceptualism', the brand of conceptual art that has made Vancouver, British Columbia an important city for global art since the mid-to-late 1980s. loop the loop in this extensive retrospective. Planned thematically rather than chronologically, the show takes a trip through nearly thirty years of work in various media--film, photography, sculpture, text-based and musical projects. And it is a trip: Proceedings start with a showing of Halcion Sleep, 1994, and end with The Phonokinetoscope, 2001, including footage of Graham dropping a tab of LSD LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide (lī'sûr`jĭk, dī'ĕth`ələmĭd, dī'ĕthəlăm`ĭd), alkaloid synthesized from lysergic acid, which is found in the fungus ergot ( . The Whitechapel's Iwona Blazwick Iwona Blazwick lives and works in London, England, where she is director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Until 2001, she was head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern, where she was responsible for co-curating the installation of the collection and formulating the exhibitions and Anthony Spira, K21's Julian Heynen, and Marseilles Marseilles (märsā`), Fr. Marseille, city (1990 pop. 807,726), capital of Bouches-du-Rhône dept., SE France, on the Gulf of Lions, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. MAC's Nathalie Ergino join curatorial forces to keep things bowling along. Sept. 13-Nov. 10; K21, Dusseldorf, Feb. 15-May 25; Marseilles MAC, Marseille, July 4-Oct. 12. |
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