A new work by Vancouver conceptualist Rodney Graham (born 1949) is
always guaranteed to surprise and amuse in equal measure. Indeed,
the idea of amusement, espoused by Duchamp as an aesthetic
aspiration, is expanded by Graham in "British Weathervanes" to
include the idea of folly, as espoused by the sixteenth-century
humanist scholar Erasmus, author of "The Praise of Folly" (1511).
Graham's Erasmus weathervane, made for the cupola o f the
Whitechapel Gallery in London, shows the author, modeled by the
artist, reading a book while riding a horse backwards (elaborating
on the anecdote that Erasmu swrote "The Praise of Folly>/I>on
horseback). Erasmus' weather-blown obliviousness continues Graham's
inquiry into involuntary journeys and cyclical and backward motion.
This beautifully produced artist's book derives its design from
the1940s series Britain in Pictures and contains photographs,
drawings, essays on the project alongside a letter by Erasmus.
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