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PAST EXHIBITION BROADWAY BILLBOARD: Robin Rhode, Promenade September 2008 - April 2009 Socrates Sculpture Park is pleased to present its 17th Billboard project, an excerpt from Robin Rhode's photographic series Promenade, 2008. Promenadeis based on a collaboration between the artist and the famed pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in presenting Mussorgsky's piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition." Rhode is creating the stage sets and interludes that will debut at Lincoln Center in November 2009. Promenadem uses on the nature of creation itself; Rhode's protagonist acts as a master of cermonies, 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 is the first that Rhode has created for the project, presented as an introduction to one of the sections or "promenades" of Mussorgsky's piano suite. Robin Rhode was born in 1976 in Cape Town, South Africa. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Rhode's work is rooted in performance and his interaction with public space through drawings and subsequent erasures on walls, buildings and streets. He utilizes photography and stop time animation as a means of documentation. He has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad including Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Rhode's work is included in numerous public and private collections internationally. Later this year, he will be exhibiting in London at both the Hayward Gallery and at the Hoxton Square branch of the White Cube gallery; and will be featured at Prospect. 1, the New Orleans Biennale. In 2009, the artist will have a solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York. MORE INFORMATION - Download a PDF of the Broadway Billboard: Robin Rhode Press Release SUPPORTERS This exhibition is funded, in part, by public funds from the Visual Arts Program of the New York State Council on the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to the City of New York, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, City Councilmember Eric Gioia, and the Department of Parks & Recreation, Commissioner Adrian Benepe. This work appears courtesy of the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York. Special thanks to ImageKing Visual Solutions and Kent Johnson. 
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