Untitled, Teapot 2005
Art imitates street life
South African artist Robin Rhode was born in Cape Town in 1976. Formally, he cut his teeth at Wits Tech (National Diploma in Fine Art) and South African School of Film, Television and Dramatic Arts – both in Johannesburg. Rhode now occupies the performing and fine arts’ worlds from its epicenter Berlin (where he resides) and beyond, having exhibited his work on his own and with others in every city from Yokohama to Melbourne to Oslo to LA and still many more. Often on the street, Rhode uses charcoal and chalk to create illustrations with which he interacts using his own body and develops into video animation. Solo for the first time in the UK Rhode presents his signature graffiti-meets-video-meets-movement art at London’s Hayward Gallery.
Get there between now and 7 December.
Blackhead, 2006
Snakehead, 2004
All prints from Perry Rubinstein Gallery
