Rodney Graham

Rodney Graham counts among the most important conceptual artists of our time. He is renowned for his humorous, self-reflexive and narrative works, in which he puts himself in relation to literature, music, film, and icons from art history in various roles.
The exhibition Kitchen Magic Drawings at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle shows new works by Rodney Graham in the role of the “pipe cleaner artist,” a concept he has been pursuing since 2013. Rüdiger Schöttle’s new book KITCHEN MAGIC provided the inspiration for these intensely colorful and mysterious drawings. The text is based on ideas of Theodor W. Adorno and Jacques Derrida; the kitchen serves as a metaphor and space for Rüdiger Schöttle’s thoughts on temporality, perception and the connection of subject and object.