RODNEY GRAHAM

Public Poster Program II (16 / march 2018)

God Bless Tiny Tim*, 2 layers silkscreen print on C-MAT 150 gr., 68 x 94 cm. /26.8 x 37 inches, edition 25, signed and numbered, march 2018

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*The edition is an hommage to vocalist ‘Tiny Tim’ who took his name from a Charles Dickens’ character (a Christmas Carol)

SCHOOL OF VELOCITY, silk-screen and off-set printing, 12 hours of music divided into 15 minute intervals, 15 sheets, each 17 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches /44 x 39 cm., overall 56 x 71 inches /142 x 180 cm., series of 48, each representing 15 minutes of music, 1993
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EZEK. 40-42, liquitex on canvas, 13 1/2 x 18 inches /34 x 46 cm., edition of 15, signed and numbered, 1992
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Au Tatoueur, artists’ book, offset printing, 16 p., 32 x 25 cm., printed by Cultura, Wetteren. French version of the poem To the Tattooist written and designed by the artist in 2010. French translation by Philippe Hunt, edition of 250 numbered copies, 2011

Au Tatoueur, deluxe edition of the same artists’ book as above, artists’ book in a full cloth box blind-stamped with the name 'Poem’. Offset printing on Arches paper, full blue calf leather binding, 16 pages, 32 x 25 cm. (box 33.5 x 26 x 1.6 cm.), printed by Cultura, Wetteren, limited edition of 7 copies, signed and numbered, 2011

The System of Landor's Cottage. A Pendant to Poe's Last Story, artists’ book, offset printing. 328 pages, 2 illustrations, 19 x 12.7 cm., printed by Cultura, Wetteren.

Second edition of the same title first published in 1987. With a preface by Rodney Graham and in appendix essays by Jamie Hilder and Robert Linsley, edition of 600 copies, the cover is printed in 4 distinct colours to form 4 sets of books numbered from 1 to 150, 2012
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The System of Landor's Cottage. A Pendant to Poe's Last Story, deluxe edition of the same book as above, artists’ book presented in a box inscribed with the name ‘VATHEK’, alluding to the 'oriental tale' of the same title by Wiliam Beckford, an author cited in the original Edgar Allen Poe short story to which Rodney Graham's novel is appended and likewise plagiarized by Graham in a passage on pages 104 and 105 of this edition wherein five pleasure pavilions are described, offset printing on Ingres paper. 328 pages, 2 illustrations, 25 x 18 cm (box: 33.2 x 27.3 x 4 cm.), pinted by Cultura, Wetteren. Box produced in two different colours: red or green, designed by Rodney Graham, limited edition of 20 copies, signed and numbered, 2012

Rodney Graham's The System of Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to Poe's Last Story is the most ambitious of the textual interventions that contributed to Graham's emergence onto the international art scene in the 1980s. Part 'pataphysical investigation, part Roussellian exercise, the text begins with Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim,'" which describes a waylaid traveller's encounter with an uncannily pristine landscape and cabin in the Hudson River Valley. Into this short tale, which numbers less than twenty pages in most editions, Graham inserts an entire novel centered around an annex to Poe's original structure that houses a fantastical machine. Through a complex set of nested tales, the origins of the machine become clearer but no less magical, and readers will be held rapt by accounts of architectural wonders, a mysterious cipher, and the romance of impossible science.

To the Tattooist, silkscreen printing on Fabriano paper, 140 x 112 cm., pPrinted by Serigrafia Kroma, Città di Castello, edition of 20 copies, signed and numbered, 2012

Print version of the poem To the Tattooist first published by Rodney Graham in 2010. The typesetting and layout is a reappropriation of the French version Au Tatoueur, the book is here presented in six successive double pages printed on one broadsheet.