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- He was best known for his ‘pavilions’ – hybrid structures blending sculpture and architecture – theatres of perception that toyed with illusion and geometry, casting viewers as both spectators and protagonists.
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Jun 5, 2005 · A tribute to one of the most important international conceptual artists, Dan Graham, whose research explored the boundaries between art and architecture. We trace his career through the rich bibliography of thinkers and critics who have reconstructed and commented on his work.
His pavilions combine architecture and art. Dan Graham's pavilion works have been compared to Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sjima 's work on the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa . [ 25 ]
Jun 27, 2014 · One of the most significant and influential conceptual artists working today, Dan Graham is happy to invoke critical thinkers like Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin , architectural history, and psychoanalytic theory when discussing the genre-blurring art he's been making since the 1970s. The 75-year-old artist will, however, just as quickly ...
His early magazine-based art predates, but is often associated with, conceptual art. His later work focused on cultural phenomena by incorporating photography, video, performance art, glass and mirror installation art structures, and closed-circuit television.
Graham’s wide-ranging work of the last 40 years has most persistently situated itself in relation to architecture. Graham has made, or made plans for, numerous pavilions, installations, and what are best described as interventions in suburban housing.
Feb 20, 2022 · Dan Graham, an artist whose work both pioneered and transcended a number of genres including conceptual art, Minimalism, video art, architectural intervention and more, has died, aged 79. His...
Feb 21, 2022 · Dan Graham, who was one of the leading lights of the 1960s conceptual art – despite his reluctance for the term – has died. The artist’s works spanned film, video, photography, performance, writing and, perhaps most notably, from the late 1970s onwards, a series of glass, mirror and steel architectural pavilions.