"Life Is: Robin Rhode"

One of my favorite contemporary artist is Robin Rhode. He pulled me into one of his performances a few years ago, where he used black charcoal on a naked while wall. He drew a car and a parking meter and stayed glued to the wall with his hands.... he would pull out coins from his pocket to put into the 2 dimensionally drawn in meter, and found himself at conflict with it as the three dimensional object could not respect the slot that was drawn for it in the 2 dimensional drawing. frustrated, he looked at the crown, still glued to the wall, pulled me into his performance, disappeared into the crowd and left me alone to deal with the frustration of values that society has imposed on us. My white shirt of course got charcoaled up but i've been in love since. Rhode is a Berlin Based South African artist that approaches art in a successful unconventional way. He uses subcultural context of fashion, hip hop, history, identity and render them into the everyday.

The art form is formless
Aaza