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Throw Away

Artist Robin Rhode (South African, b. 1976)

CultureSouth African

Date2010

MediumNine color coupler prints

DimensionsOverall, Image: 13 3/4 × 21 1/16 in. (34.9 × 53.5 cm)
45 x 67 1/2 in. (114.3 x 171.5 cm)

PortfolioEdition 3 of 6, 2 AP

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by Oriana McKinnon, Joseph T. Waldo, Meredith and Brother Rutter, Clark and Kelly Avery, David and Susan Goode, Foundation for a Better World, Rob and Meredith Lauter, Barbara and Andrew Fine, Suzanne and Vince Mastracco, Patt and Colin McKinnon, Tom and Rebecca Robinson, Tom and Selina Stokes, Randy and Lelia Graham Webb, Allison and Edward Whitmore, and Wayne and Ashlin Wilbanks

Object number2012.15

Not on view

DescriptionSet of nine grayscale color coupler prints, arranged in a three-by-three grid. The prints depict a sequence of a boy, standing on a ledge in an alleyway, appearing to throw a dart towards a blank square canvas on the background wall. The dart is an illusion, rendered in chalk on the background wall. In the second row of images, the dart begins to rotate, reversing its direction in the space of the square canvas. In the third row, it returns to him; in the final frame, it comes to rest on the tip of his extended finger.

Label TextRobin Rhode South African, b. 1976 Throw Away, 2010 Nine color coupler prints (photographs) Robin Rhode’s work is deceptively simple. Over the course of nine staged photographs, a young man appears to throw a dart that makes a quick flip and returns to him like a boomerang. While drawing on contemporary graffiti art and the street culture of Johannesburg, Rhode also references the stop-motion photographs of Eadweard Muybridge, seen to the left. Unlike Muybridge, however, who captured humans and other animals mid-stride, Rhode conveys speed and movement through visual conceits based on drawings. Notice the trail of white chalk following the dart, which suggests forward motion. The sequence of discrete scenes evokes a continuous narrative, like a flipbook. Museum purchase, with funds provided by Oriana McKinnon, Joseph T. Waldo, Meredith and Brother Rutter, Clark and Kelly Avery, David and Susan Goode, Foundation for a Better World, Rob and Meredith Lauter, Barbara and Andrew Fine, Suzanne and Vince Mastracco, Pat and Colin McKinnon, Tom and Rebecca Robinson, Tom and Selina Stokes, Randy and Lelia Graham Webb, Allison and Edward Whitmore, and Wayne and Ashlin Wilbanks 2012.15 ProvenancePurchased by Chrysler Museum of Art from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, December 2012.Exhibition History"Mowbray Arch Society 2012," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, November 28 - December 5, 2012. "Photographs Take Time: Pictures from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, April 6 - August 26, 2018.