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| Saatchi Online TV presents a selection of video works by Robin Rhode to coincide with his exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. ‘Promenade’, a collaboration with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, muses on the nature of artistic creation. The protagonist acts as a master of ceremonies introducing a show - in this case animated drawings or forms - that then engulf him. The emcee becomes a character in his own painting, figuring out the density and geometry of the forms he has produced but cannot necessarily control. This animation was Rhode’s first creation for the 17th Billboard Project, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, and was presented as an introduction to one of the sections or 'promenades' of Mussorgsky’s piano suite.
Robin Rhode has a solo show at the Hayward Gallery until 7 December and at White Cube Hoxton Square until 10 January 2009.
Excerpt from ‘Promenade’, 2008, HD animation
Copyright Robin Rhode. Courtesy the artist, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, and Tucci Russo Studio Per L’Arte Contemporanea, Turin.
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