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#mustSee : #RobinRhode #drawingwaves @drawingcenter (at The Drawing Center)

In addition to his training in fine art, Rhode also has a background in performance and the Johannesburg street art scene. He is best known for his works that combine drawing on urban walls with performance and stop action photography. With echoes of Edward Muybridge's Classic motion studies, Rhode fuses performance, street art and photography into his own singular style -- collapsing dimensions and creating evocative imagined environments in the process. Robin Rhode, Breaking Waves (detail), 2014, C-print series in 16 parts. #RobinRhode #art #drawing #performance #video #photography #streetart #Johannesburg #surf #breaking #waves #stop #action #motion #NYC #museum #DrawingWaves @lehmannmaupin @stevenson_za @drawingcenter (at The Drawing Center)

Read ARTnews Magazine's Hannah Ghorashi on our ongoing #RobinRhode exhibition - including an interview with Rhode at artnews.com. On view Wed - Sun 12-6pm | Thur 12-8pm Excerpt: Artnews: For "Breaking Waves", you created waves out of minimalist semi-circles. Was this a change in style for you? Your other work is often very realistic and detailed. Robin Rhode: I have often embraced a strong geometric approach to my work aesthetic. I attempt to foreground a physical narrative that overlays a basic geometric composition. In Breaking Waves, I incorporated fractal geometry found in West African symbolism and design—their symbol of “calm waters” uses interconnected half circles over a horizontal plane. The semi-circles begin to blend into circles, denoting infinity, as does the character of the number 8. We see eight gradients of blue tone from left to right in the end of the artwork, with four circles positioned vertically. Numerical divisibility is key and functions as a conceptual code in many of my artworks, as does the idea of imaginary landscapes as presented in a work about the ocean in a space without water. The city of Johannesburg is completely landlocked, without water, ocean, or rivers, so the act of creating a work that so completely encapsulates the sea becomes a means to project oneself away from the given reality. #RobinRhode #DrawingWaves #ARTnews (at The Drawing Center)