Author Description

Robin Rhode: Animating the Everyday focuses on the digital videos that Rhode identifies as "animations" and the photographic series that correspond to or complement the time-based work. These animations articulate drawing and movement; juxtapose sound and image; recycle everyday objects such as bicycles, chairs, musical instruments, and sports equipment; and refashion artistic precursors and contemporaries such as Marcel Duchamp, Gerrit Rietveld, Mies van der Rohe, William Kentridge, and Richard Serra. Produced in studios, in the streets, and in Rhode's parents' yard in Johannesburg, the animations and photographs feature an uncanny conjunction of the familiar and the strange, and vividly stage the perils and delights of everyday life. This 156-page, fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays by co-curators Helaine Posner, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Neuberger Museum of Art, and Louise Yelin, Professor of Literature at Purchase College; by Tom Gunning, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago; and by Leora Maltz-Leca, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design. An interview with the artist is included.