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Rodney Graham
Presentation House, Vancouver
Rodney Graham's recent exhibition, "Getting It Together in the Country," continues his ongoing exploration of the role of gentleman adventurer and the conventions and constructs of narrative cinema, historical situations and cultural icons. The exhibition includes a modest photographic series (begun over twenty years ago) as well as more recent grand-scale filmic works.
Aerodynamic Forms in Space, a series of photographs taken in 1977 but first printed in 1996, clearly exemplifies Graham's waggish sense of humour and rigorous analysis of objects. Here, plastic and balsam-wood model gliders are configured into shapes that, in combination with strategic lighting, cast shadows reminiscent of Futurist abstraction and allude to the early 20th-century's obsession with flight. What at first glance seems pure abstraction is actually a photograph of a toy airplane.
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