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03-04-2010, 04:50 PM
Dan Graham: In defiance of convention
By - 03-04-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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New York-based Dan Graham is a pioneer of conceptual art who has defied convention throughout most of his 40-year career. Born in Illinois and raised primarily in New Jersey, he started out by creating text-based concept pieces intended for distribution in magazines. Then he moved on to performances — using video recorders, live-feed monitors and mirrors to complicate the relationships between performer and spectator. He has since become known for making pavilions, large-scale works fabricated from two-way mirror glass and metal that balance between artwork and architecture.
For his current exhibition at the Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo's Koto Ward — his first at a commercial gallery in Japan since 1996 — Graham has made a new pavilion, titled "Wood Grid Crossing Two-way Mirror," that's comprised of a rectangular grid of wooden bars intersected by a curving form made out of two-way mirror glass and aluminum. Other works on display include original photographs from Graham's iconic "Homes for America" series (begun 1966), which turn the uniformity of the suburban landscape into a meditation on minimalism.http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/y7jWy87MwWxWmpE30tKwwCzdFPE/0/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/y7jWy87MwWxWmpE30tKwwCzdFPE/0/da)
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By - 03-04-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
====================
New York-based Dan Graham is a pioneer of conceptual art who has defied convention throughout most of his 40-year career. Born in Illinois and raised primarily in New Jersey, he started out by creating text-based concept pieces intended for distribution in magazines. Then he moved on to performances — using video recorders, live-feed monitors and mirrors to complicate the relationships between performer and spectator. He has since become known for making pavilions, large-scale works fabricated from two-way mirror glass and metal that balance between artwork and architecture.
For his current exhibition at the Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo's Koto Ward — his first at a commercial gallery in Japan since 1996 — Graham has made a new pavilion, titled "Wood Grid Crossing Two-way Mirror," that's comprised of a rectangular grid of wooden bars intersected by a curving form made out of two-way mirror glass and aluminum. Other works on display include original photographs from Graham's iconic "Homes for America" series (begun 1966), which turn the uniformity of the suburban landscape into a meditation on minimalism.http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/y7jWy87MwWxWmpE30tKwwCzdFPE/0/di (http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/y7jWy87MwWxWmpE30tKwwCzdFPE/0/da)
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