Dan Graham @ 303 Gallery, New York - Three Models, Three Sizes, Three Price Ranges

Dan Graham 

Three Models, Three Sizes, Three Price Ranges
303 Gallery, New York
November 2020

303 Gallery announces its first solo exhibition with Dan Graham.

Treating the gallery as a kind of automobile showroom, Dan Graham's installation of models allows the viewer to become both participant and spectator in perceiving the space physically and psychologically in relation to other spectators. As Dan Graham put it in a recent interview with Antoine Catala, "In my own work, walking around is important because not only do you see yourself seeing in the reflection, but you also see other people seeing each other as you see them."

In addition to the models, a video projection will be displayed of Dan Graham’s design for the runway for Celine’s SS17 collection (2016) at Paris Fashion Week, along with the large graphic of a park design using a curved hedge and curved two-way mirror; this design was renovation of a small city park in Culiacán, Mexico, the hometown of El Chapo, former head of the Sinaloa Cartel. Dan Graham’s artwork, beginning in 1965-66, originally consisted of “pre-conceptual art” magazine pages and his well-known color photos of suburban houses; these were forerunners of his pavilions. The pavilions can be seen as a hybrid between art, architecture, design and landscape architecture.

Relating both to landscape and corporate architecture, Dan Graham's pavilions sometimes create a kaleidoscopic, psychedelic experience relating to “child’s play,” recreating, as in works like the proposal for Skateboard Pavilion, apparatuses for children in a playground setting. Dan Graham says, “my use of two-way mirror glass in pavilions is not a critique of the alienation of the corporate building; in many ways the work I do tries to create a kind of pleasure area in relationship to the corporate office building, or to use Foucault’s notion, my wish being to create a kind of ‘heterotopia.'"

Dan Graham’s work is in the collections of various museums such as the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, as well as the Centre Pompidou, Paris. In 2009, he had US retrospective exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Previously, he has had European retrospectives at the Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris, and Kröller-Müller Museum in Holland. Important individual exhibitions include The Renaissance Society (1981), Chicago; Kunsthalle Bern (1983), and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1997). One of the most important quasi-functional works that Dan Graham has done was a design for the mezzanine section of the Hayward Gallery in London, involving displays of classic and contemporary cartoons for children and adults of all ages. He has participated in various Documenta exhibitions; Skulptur Muenster, as well as two important Venice Biennials. Dan Graham lives and works in New York.

303 GALLERY
555 W 21 Street, New York, NY
www.303gallery.com

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Dan Graham @ Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Dan Graham: New Works By A Small-Town Boy 
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
July 7 – August 18, 2018

Regen Projects presents an exhibition of works by Dan Graham. This marks his second solo presentation at the gallery.

For over fifty years, Dan Graham’s expansive multidisciplinary practice has encompassed video, sculpture, photography, performance, installation, and a prolific body of writing on religion, music, art, architecture, garden design, and popular culture. Forming a central theoretical thread throughout the course of his career, his work has examined the function and role of architecture in contemporary society, and how it frames and reflects public life. Since the 1970s he has produced what he refers to as pavilions, hybrid constructions that are part architecture and part sculpture. Inspired by ornamental buildings found in 17th and 18th century European pleasure gardens, Dan Graham’s sculptural pavilions are comprised of simple geometric forms and constructed using materials associated with corporate architecture like metal, aluminum, transparent and/or two-way mirrored glass, and sometimes juxtaposed with natural elements like hedges. Functioning as built environments, the pavilions create unusual optical and physical experiences for the viewer – blurring the lines between public and private space – and making apparent that our material surroundings structure the very core of our societies by determining the form of our vision and sight.

A selection of photographs relating to his seminal magazine artwork, Homes for America (1966), and taken by Dan Graham during a 2006 visit to his native suburban New Jersey, feature images of diverse architectural styles punctuated with lawns, topiaries, and shrubs. Displayed in a sequenced formation on the gallery walls, each image highlights Dan Graham’s interest in serial structures, topology, and systems of information as evident in the peculiar color ranges, materials, and repetitive geometries of the suburban American landscape. A series of architectural models and video works provide further context for his ongoing exploration of the built world.

Dan Graham (b. 1942) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2017); Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2014); Le Consortium, Dijon (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2009); and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2009). His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Tate Collection, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

REGEN PROJECTS
6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90038
www.regenprojects.com

Dan Graham @ Greene Naftali, New York - A New Look at TV and a Funhouse

Dan Graham

A New Look at TV and a Funhouse

Greene Naftali, New York

May 19 – June 16, 2018

Over the past fifty years, Dan Graham has continually reexamined the intersections of architecture and popular culture. Dan Graham’s new installation, TV Producer as Conceptual Artist (2018), combines these interests, displaying excerpted footage from reality and game shows on box monitors, around an architectural screen of perforated Masonite and stretched Mylar. Visitors are invited to lounge on vinyl cushions spread across the floor for easy viewing, evoking a Middle American suburban den. Hand painted in a neo-‘60s mode on the exterior window is the work’s title, a collaboration with designer Michael Metz.

The selected clips combine pathos and humor, demonstrating TV’s ability to generate amusement from the small and large humiliations of its subjects. An American Family, which was the topic of a 1983 essay by the artist, purports to document the daily lives of an ordinary Santa Barbara family, the Louds—but, paradoxically, their appearance on TV propelled them into sudden celebrity, at least for a Warholian fifteen minutes. In Queen for a Day, overburdened housewives compete for the sympathy of a live audience, gauged by an applause meter. The Newlywed Game reveals how little recently married couples actually know each other, sometimes provoking genuine marital discord. This Is Your Life forces celebrities to confront their pasts, and Candid Camera stages pranks and records the bewildered responses.

The large format print hanging in the front gallery refers to Dan Graham’s historical manipulations of television as medium, collecting images and text related to his 1976 conceptual work Production / reception (piece for two cable TV channels). In that work, the inside of a TV studio is filmed and then broadcast on TV. On another channel, a family is shown sitting around the TV set, watching. The artist thus inverts the standard flow of televised distribution, turning the production process itself, as well as the experience of spectatorship, into possible “channels” to be viewed.

In the central gallery, Dancing Circles (2018), a site-specific installation of interlocking glass and steel, is set in conversation with the structural columns that divide the room. The installation continues Dan Graham’s use of reflective material to produce funhouse-like optical effects that are disorienting in their visual distortions. Dan Graham’s ongoing series of sculptural installations, often called “pavilions,” adopt the conventions of corporate architecture, employing the two-way mirror glass used in office buildings to allow light in while keeping prying eyes out.

On view in the back gallery are two sculptures. One, a pyramidal model using a combination of two-way mirror glass and perforated steel, if built full-scale and entered would create an almost psychedelic experience. The second model, for a pavilion whose entrance riffs on the “moon gates” found in Chinese gardens, has been realized at full-scale in Vienna and Milwaukee. A divider made from laminated glass separates the two works—objects present on the reverse side of the glass are almost, but not quite, visible.

DAN GRAHAM lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2017); Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2017); Greene Naftali, New York (2014); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2014); Le Consortium, Dijon (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2009); and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2009) His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Tate Collection, London; Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

GREENE NAFTALI

508 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001

www.greenenaftaligallery.com

Dan Graham, Giuseppe Penone, Danh Vo, Jeff Wall at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Dan Graham, Giuseppe Penone, Danh Vo, Jeff Wall
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
March 6 - April 10, 2014 

Marian Goodman Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by gallery artists Dan Graham, Giuseppe Penone, Danh Vo, and Jeff Wall, opening March 6th and on view through April 10th. 

In the North Gallery two new colour works by Jeff Wall completed during the past year are presented: Monologue, a night scene in which three men engage in discussion under a streetlight, and Summer Afternoons, a diptych showing a young man and woman, both naked, in a sun-filled apartment. A small picture made in 2012, Flowering Plant, will also be shown.  

In an adjacent section of the North Gallery, Giuseppe Penone’s Pelle di grafite - transparenza (2005), a graphite work on white fabric is on view, alongside Germinazione (2005), a series of six hanging wall sculptures in acrylic resin that refer in essence to the bodily process of imprint and gesture at the heart of  Penone’s practice -- the physical space of touching and its impact on the metaphysical space of seeing. Germinazione originate from the negative imprint of a section of tree trunk or branch or stone compressed into the earth by the artist’s own hands and then are superimposed and developed imprint by imprint, into the resulting positive, the ‘germinated’ sculpture itself.

In the North Gallery Viewing Room, Danh Vo’s Gustav’s Wing (2013), a lifesized sculpture of a human figure in six cast bronze fragments, is based on a model of the artist’s nephew Gustav, at age 11  Gustav’s Wing originated as a photograph of the boy’s double-jointed shoulder blade, which he referred to as his ‘wing’ and later Vo began to make works produced from a full body mold.  Although the figure's posture seems to signify a peaceful moment, its display in pieces at the same time evokes an unsettling atmosphere.  Vo first created works from Gustav’s form in paper mache for the exhibition Gustav’s Wing at Porto Culturegest, Portugal. The bronze work is shown here for the first time following its inclusion at Art Basel Parcours this summer. 

In the South Gallery, Slice (2013), a new triangular pavilion by Dan Graham, is presented. The work continues the artist’s investigation in recent years into the perceptual properties of curved two-way mirror glass. With one concave and one convex side and another convex side made of perforated stainless steel, the pavilion affords intricate reflections changing from elongation to contraction. The work reveals flux and bodily movement through an open structure, reflecting the immediate surroundings.  

Current and upcoming projects by the artists include a solo exhibition of Dan Graham’s Models and Beyond, at De Pont Foundation, Tillburg, Netherlands on view through May. This summer Dan Graham will exhibit a new pavilion at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Met Rooftop as part of their commissioned works exhibition program.  An exhibition co-curated by  Danh Vo, Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, opened in November and will complete its run at Artists Space on  February 23rd.  Danh Vo is producing a performance in conjunction with XiuXiu to open the Berlin Biennale on May 28th. His forthcoming solo projects include: in the summer at Nottingham Contemporary, U.K., opening July 19th; and in the Fall at The Kitchen, New York, opening September 25th.  Giuseppe Penone’s recent Ideas of Stone completed a six-month exhibition at Madison Square Park, NY in early February.  A solo exhibition will be forthcoming in the Fall 2015 at The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas.  Jeff Wall’s current solo exhibitions in Europe include: Jeff Wall In Munich,  Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, on view through March 9, 2014; and Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996-2013, opening March 1st at the Stedelijk Amsterdam and on view through August 3, 2014. The Stedelijk show will travel to Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria from October through January 2015, and Louisiana Museum, Denmark, from February to June 2015.

MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY
www.mariangoodman.com

This Is Not a Love Song at La Virreina Image Centre, Barcelona

This Is Not a Love Song
La Virreina Image Centre, Barcelona
22 May - 13 October 2013

La Virreina Image Centre presents This Is Not a Love Song, an exhibition that sets out to trace the genealogy of the relations between pop music and video-creation from the 1960s to today, with the emphasis on those moments in which there was feedback between the two manifestations as they explored the field of experiment, utopia and political incorrectness.

Since the 1960s, various generations of avant-garde artists have integrated into their production processes elements that are related with the attitudes and imaginaries of pop music. Artists of the calibre of Andy Warhol, Vito Acconci, Dan Graham, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Rodney Graham, Tony Oursler, Christian Marclay, Mike Kelley, Douglas Gordon, Jeremy Deller or Damien Hirst, and many more, down to today, have approached this genre in some of their most outstanding works, sometimes even collaborating with different rock bands or recording their own albums. Similarly, leading musicians such as John Lennon, David Bowie, Pete Townshend, Syd Barret, Brian Eno, Alan Vega, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson and members of essential bands of the last two decades, like Sonic Youth, REM, Blur, or Franz Ferdinand all trained at art school before becoming professional musicians.

From this approach and bearing in mind that the origins of video-art run almost parallel to those of pop music, the project is divided into two sections:

1- Pop and video-creation. Shared genealogies

This section includes more than 30 significant works in the history of video art and experimental film from the 1960s to 2013 that are formally and conceptually related to the iconographies of pop and rock, with works by Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Yayoi Kusama. Dan Graham, Tony Oursler, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Christian Marclay, Douglas Gordon, Candice Breitz, Jeremy Deller, Mark Leckey, Jon Mikel Euba, Largen & Bread and others.

2- Music for your eyes. Visual arts and the aesthetics of the videoclip

This section is a journey through the history of the musical videoclip to review the careers of the most important authors of the last 40 years and their connections with contemporary visual arts and cinema and includes a programme of music videos by artists like Andy Warhol, Tony Oursler, Judith Barry, Robert Longo, Joan Morey, Damien Hirst, Ana Laura Aláez, Carles Congost, Pipilotti Rist, Dara Birnbaum, Joseph Beuys, Adel Abidin, Hugo Alonso, Charles Atlas, Marc Bijl, Olaf Breuning, Charley Case, Cheryl Donegan, Jorge Galindo i Santiago Sierra, Jesús Hernández, Bjørn Melhus, César Pesquera, John Sanborn, Kit Fitzgerald (Antarctica), etc.

Curator: F. Javier Panera

 This is Not a Love Song: Interfaces between Visual Arts and Pop Music

Exhibition Catalogue

Exhibition co-produced by Screen Projects / La Virreina Centre de la Imatge / Primavera Sound

La Virreina Centre de la Imatge
Palau de la Virreina
La Rambla, 99 - 08002 Barcelona
http://lavirreina.bcn.cat/