Artists

Robin Rhode, Rogelio Báez Vega

Press release

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present In Dialogue: Robin Rhode & Rogelio Báez Vega, the latest exhibition in the gallery’s new series that places artists from Lehmann Maupin’s program and beyond in an intimate conversation through their distinct approaches to artmaking. For the London debut of In Dialogue, Lehmann Maupin brings together new photography-based work by artist Robin Rhode and paintings by Rogelio Báez Vega that consider the role of urban architecture in contemporary society. The exhibition will open in the gallery’s South Kensington space from November 19th, with an opening reception with Báez Vega in attendance from 6–8 PM. 

In Dialogue: Robin Rhode & Rogelio Báez Vega foregrounds work from both artists that uses urban architecture as a lens for examining the cultural, social, and political contexts in which it is constructed. From Rhode’s multi-panel, narrative images, shot in an abandoned sports ground in the West Rand in Johannesburg, to Báez Vega’s uncanny depictions of urban planning projects in Puerto Rico, both artists explore the physical and symbolic properties of the built environment through their respective bodies of work.