October 8—November 12, 2005
Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Picasso, My Master Rodney Graham
Press Release
After literature, photography, classical music, sculpture, film and rock music, Rodney Graham has turned his attention to painting for his first solo exhibition in Berlin. As always, he is fascinated by the great masters of each discipline, who through their work have set standards of universal validity. His attitude is imbued with both admiration and contradiction. For example, he estranges the sculptures of Donald Judd, the master of meaningless surfaces, by utilizing them as bookshelves...