{"id":7346,"date":"2018-02-13T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2025-02-12T22:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T03:29:57","slug":"robin-rhode-at-lehmann-maupin-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/13\/robin-rhode-at-lehmann-maupin-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Rhode Photographs at Lehmann Maupin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a sequence of six photos by South African artist Robin Rhode, an acrobatic mathematician contorts his body to project a \u2018Lute of Pythagoras,\u2019 a series of pentagrams locked together in pleasing mathematical proportion. At the gallery entrance, Rhode quotes Swiss architect and urban planner Le Corbusier\u2019s assertion that humanity attempts to save itself from chaos through geometry. Rhode\u2019s efforts to better humanity by joining art and geometry feel poignantly quixotic. (On view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehmannmaupin.com\/exhibitions\/2018-01-18_robin-rhode\">Lehmann Maupin Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea through Feb 24<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7347\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/13\/robin-rhode-at-lehmann-maupin-gallery-2\/robin_rhode\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7347\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7347 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/robin_rhode-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robin Rhode, one of six panels in Meditation on the Lute of Pythagoras, 6 parts, each 21.5 x 28.58 x 1.5 inches, c-print, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sequence of six photos by South African artist Robin Rhode, an acrobatic mathematician contorts his body to project a \u2018Lute of Pythagoras,\u2019 a series of pentagrams locked together in pleasing mathematical proportion. At the gallery entrance, Rhode quotes Swiss architect and urban planner Le Corbusier\u2019s assertion that humanity attempts to save itself from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/13\/robin-rhode-at-lehmann-maupin-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robin Rhode Photographs at Lehmann Maupin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[117,13,5586,82,7836,33,17,7837,752,849],"class_list":["post-7346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-chelsea","tag-gallery","tag-geometry","tag-lehmann-maupin","tag-lute","tag-painting","tag-photography","tag-pythagoras","tag-robin-rhode","tag-south-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1Uu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}