Rodney Graham -- who will he become next?
Rodney Graham is a Canadian artist, born in Vancouver in 1949. But he could be anyone -- or so his art suggests. In Fishing on the Jetty, 2000, the Rodney Graham renders himself into his own text as a filmed subject. In this film/performance art piece, the viewer is witness to the sight of Graham playing Cary Grant in his own nautical version of Alfred Hitchcock's 'To Catch a Thief.' Graham, within the context of the piece is himself, is the character of Grant, and is also the persona portrayed by 'Cary Grant,' the sublimely artificial romantic lead of the 1930's classical film in a who-done-it about mistaken identity, a film where the actor portrays a constantly misleading man with a shape-shifting identity.
In much of his work, which straddles the line between film and photography, Graham is both creator and subject, and is constantly exploring the notion of identity. Perhaps this is reflected in another of the artist's passion, that of the transforming musical textures of modern rock music. In Aberdeen 2000, the artist created a work named after the birthplace of Kurt Cobain, he portrays the deceased rock musician likewise as a celebrity as well as a fellow artist of a different medium. So many young people identified with Cobain, one of the reasons Graham says, for his fascination with the artist as well as his love of Cobain's music.
Perhaps most epically and most characteristically, however, Rodney Graham 'can also be seen in one of his recent works Victorian dandy. This may seem, on its surface, slightly less surprising, given the artist's life-long preoccupation with Victoriana. This newest incarnation of the artist in his work is featured a large new video projection work entitled City Self / Country Self, set in Paris in the 1860's and shows Graham playing two versions of himself, an urban dandy and a provincial rustic. The setup suggests not simply a new take on the familiar myth of the urban and rural mice of the children's tale "City Mouse and...
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