ART
Dan Graham |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 28 April, 11:00Marian Goodman Gallery, 75003 [map]Dan Graham
Dan Graham is a conceptual artist, based in New York. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist investigating cultural ideologies and popular culture. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery. Graham’s artistic talents include film, video, performance, photography, architectural models, and glass and mirror structure. Graham especially focuses on the relationship between his artwork and the viewer in his pieces.
In the 1980’s, when Graham first began to investigate the relationship between architectural environments and those who inhabit them, he made a name for himself as an architect of conceptual glass and mirrored pavilions which remain as poignant today as in earlier years. His work continues to investigate the voyeuristic act of seeing oneself reflected, while at the same time watching others. Dan Graham has described the broad practice of his work as "geometric forms inhabited and activated by the presence of the viewer, producing a sense of uneasiness and psychological alienation through a constant play between feelings of inclusion and exclusion."
