Pictures Pt. II | Lehmann Maupin

Lehmann Maupin is happy to current Robin Rhode and Erwin Wurm within the second of a two half summer time exhibition inspecting modern pictures. In Part II, the gallery has chosen Rhode and Wurm, artists not sometimes categorised as photographers, however who each use pictures because the bodily art work documenting their efficiency and public engagement oriented practices.

Robin Rhode (b. 1976, Cape Town, South Africa; lives and works in Berlin) has established his distinctive apply with a multifold strategy, working throughout media, together with drawing, efficiency, pictures, video, and music. As a younger artist impressed by the rebel and chance of graffiti, he was first drawn to working in public, unsanctioned areas. Since then, his apply has advanced to develop into extra carefully aligned with and influenced by the minimal wall drawings of Sol Lewitt, and the Seventies efficiency work of artists resembling Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman, in addition to earlier artwork historic references resembling Eadweard Muybridge’s stop-motion pictures. His piece David (2017), was painted, carried out, and photographed at a location in Johannesburg the artist has returned to for a few years, working with a crew of assistants together with a doppelgänger performer whom Rhode images activating the serial portray. Rhode emphasizes the reciprocal and collaborative nature of his work, saying, “The reactions and responses of the individuals on the road, the circumstances pervading that individual course of—that is a part of the narrative.”