PLACE, Rodney (b. 1952)
Art In Heaven
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mixed media
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Texas Steer
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mixed media on board
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BIOGRAPHY
Rodney Place’s multi-disciplinary and multi-media work focuses largely on art and urbanism, whether as satirical commentary, activism, or permanent installation.
Place makes large-scale sculpture/land-art/urban installations as well as performance and video works. He studied at the Architectural Association in London, and has lived and worked in over 20 countries, presenting his work to a variety of audiences and at festivals worldwide.
In 1982, he founded The Laboratory of Uncertainty, a ten-year collaborative project involving installation and fiction writing, offering studios as a visiting artist/architect throughout the United States and Canada.
In 1996, he founded in Johannesburg, ZAR Works, an art, architecture and production company.
His ongoing multi-media project Angels of Stealth is an allegory of East-meets-West in contemporary EUrope. In Pole-Land (2005), the soldier/stripper episode of Angels of Stealth was co-produced by ARTE’s Temps d’Images Festival. Angels of Stealth: F..klore was developed in residency at Museumsquartier, Vienna, at the invitation of EIKON magazine (2007). The pilot of Angels of Stealth was shown as movie-in-the-making @ Hotel Europejski, Warsaw (2008). F..klore: Polish Girls are so lovely and delicate was further produced in residence at Vrije Academie/World Wide Visual Factory in Den Haag (2008).
Place lives and works in Johannesburg and Warsaw.