Pan's Opticon Studies
Robin Rhode’s Pan’s Opticon Studies (2009), a suite of five photogravures, appears at first like a scientific study of optics. Rhode investigates different architectural and measuring calipers, heralded by Russian constructivists, and El Lissitzky in particular, as visual extensions to the human eye. They evoke associations to both the visual range and the idea of observation but at the same time to the mechanics of opening and closing the eye, allowing or precluding acts of visual perception to influence thought. The title of the series is a play on ‘panopticon’: a circular prison building conceived by the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century that allows constant surveillance of the prisoners from a central location without them knowing if they being watched or not. Panopticon derives from the Greek ‘panoptes’— all seeing. Hence, the question arises if the Pan in Rhode’s Pan’s Opticon Studies does, in fact, see everything after all.
Pan's Opticon Studies, 2009
€2.420
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- Photogravure on Somerset 300g
Paper size 54 x 78 cm – Plate size 48.5 x 73 cm
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- Edition of 24
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- Series of 5
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- Printed by Mette Ulstrup, Julie Dam
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- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
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- ID: RoR 09 001-1
Acquired by The Baltimore Museum of Art
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Pan's Opticon Studies, 2009
€2.420
(incl. 21% Latvian VAT €420)
Inquire series of 5- Print technique
- Photogravure on Somerset 300g
Paper size 54 x 78 cm – Plate size 48.5 x 73 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Series/Set
- Series of 5
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup, Julie Dam
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: RoR 09 002-1
Acquired by The Baltimore Museum of Art
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Pan's Opticon Studies, 2009
€2.420
(incl. 21% Latvian VAT €420)
Inquire series of 5- Print technique
- Photogravure on Somerset 300g
Paper size 54 x 78 cm – Plate size 48.5 x 73 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Series/Set
- Series of 5
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup, Julie Dam
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: RoR 09 003-1
Acquired by The Baltimore Museum of Art
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Pan's Opticon Studies, 2009
€2.420
(incl. 21% Latvian VAT €420)
Inquire series of 5- Print technique
- Photogravure on Somerset 300g
Paper size 54 x 78 cm – Plate size 48.5 x 73 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Series/Set
- Series of 5
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup, Julie Dam
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: RoR 09 004-1
Acquired by The Baltimore Museum of Art
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Pan's Opticon Studies, 2009
Inquire series of 5- Print technique
- Photogravure on Somerset 300g
Paper size 54 x 78 cm – Plate size 48.5 x 73 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Series/Set
- Series of 5
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup, Julie Dam
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: RoR 09 005-1
Acquired by The Baltimore Museum of Art
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Pan's Opticon Studies, 2009
Inquire series of 5- Print technique
- Photogravure on Somerset 300g
Paper size 54 x 78 cm – Plate size 48.5 x 73 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Series/Set
- Series of 5
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup, Julie Dam
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
- Signed by:
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- Registration no
- ID: RoR 09 005-1
Acquired by The Baltimore Museum of Art
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