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Paper Planes is a story of two children staring up a wall on which graffiti planes are animated as if drawing them in their heads. Working predominantly with everyday material like charcoal, chalk and paint, Rhode started out creating performances that are based on his own drawings of objects that he interacts with. He expanded…
Robin Rhode’s Parabolic Bike follows a child as she tries to ride her bike across an ever-changing curved line. To make the video, Rhode staged aerial photographs from the roof of his mother’s house in Johannesburg, South Africa then sequenced the images to create a stop-motion digital animation. The whimsical narrative depicts the young girl…
Robin Rhode’s Paries Pictus: Activity Book supplements the site specific wall drawing intervention of the same title on view at Lehmann Maupin’s 201 Chrystie Street space from January 10 – March 16, 2013. For this exhibition, Rhode applied twenty-one vinyl graphics to the gallery walls and invited a group of first graders to participate in…
“Through the Gate” was Robin Rhode’s first exhibition with the White Cube Gallery. This book was produced in conjunction with the exhibition. Britain’s imperial past provided the basis for a number of works in “Through the Gate”. Impis comprises a series of British police riot helmets rendered in coloured glass, which were placed in a…
For his second exhibition at White Cube, Rhode presented five animations that take the chair designs of Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld as a starting point. A member of the De Stijl movement, Rietveld aspired to bring high design to the masses. A precursor to the ‘flat pack’ furniture style now prevalent, Rietveld’s…
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