He Got Game

2004
Robin Rhode

Digital animation
Duration: 1 min. 02 s.

Little more than several lines on a wall or the ground, the settings that frame his sketches come to life using a simple principle: he creates his animations using a series of fixed images that appear one after another in cross-fade; bodies move and seem to enter the drawing as it evolves. In He got game (2004), whose title is an homage to the film by Spike Lee, Rhode performs a somersault before making a basket. Using a technique employed by Meliès in the early days of cinema – presenting vertically an image filmed horizontally – he frees himself from gravity’s pull.

Hangs

Collection : A Selection of African artworks

From 26 April 2017 to 4 September 2017

Since graduating from the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, Robin Rhode has made a name for himself with his “subversive” actions in public spaces.

He shares an aesthetic with hip-hop culture. He has developed a body of work based on ephemeral interventions that blend performance, drawing and film. Using limited means that call to mind graffiti art, he draws settings and objects in charcoal or chalk with which figures (often himself) interact in short films. Little more than several lines on a wall or the ground, the settings that frame his sketches come to life using a simple principle: he creates his animations using a series of fixed images that appear one after another in cross-fade; bodies move and seem to enter the drawing as it evolves.

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David Goldblatt