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Rodney Graham
Shoes for City Self / Country Self
- Estimate
- £15,000 - 25,000‡
Lot Details
leather and metal handmade shoes in a steel and glass vitrine
187.2 x 48.1 x 33.6 cm (73 3/4 x 18 7/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Executed in 2008, this work is number 2 from an edition of 4 plus 1 artist's proof and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
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Rodney Graham
Canadian | 1949Rodney Graham pulls from cultural and intellectual history through photography, film, music, performance and painting. He presents narratives with puns and references to literature and philosophy, including Sigmund Freud and Kurt Cobain, with a sense of humor that contradicts his residence in the post-punk scene of late 1970s Vancouver.In his film trilogy Vexation Island (1999), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999) and City Self/Country Self (2001), the artist plays characters like a castaway and a cowboy caught in repetitive cycles of actions and gestures. Such unconscious dream states are further explored in Graham's series of upside-down photographs of oak trees, which are hung to mimic camera obscura.
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