power saws
robin rhode who saw who
born in south africa in 1976 berlin based robin rhode uses the barest of means to comment on urban poverty the politics of leisure and the commodification of youth cultures . drawing plays a crucial role in his inventive witty and playful performances photographs and video animations which are often created on the street and entail rhode mimelike interacting with two dimensional representations of everyday objects for example drawing a candle and attempting to blow it out or painting a bicycle and trying to ride it . recently he has moved toward more abstract forms in paintings and drawings and has also begun to make sculpture . robin rhode who saw who a generously illustrated volume is published concurrently with an exhibition at the hayward london and introduces a discourse on the dynamic work of this rising young artist .