Dan Graham, one of the most relevant artists of the last half century, has died this weekend in New York at the age of 79. A) Yes confirmed it this morning the Marian Goodman gallery. Multifaceted in his languages, the American practiced video art, writing, photography and conceptual art in a career that has lasted for more than half a century.
He achieved international fame with the creation in the late seventies of glass and mirror pavilions located in public spaces and conceived as hybrid elements, halfway between sculpture and architecture. As in many other of his proposals, these constructions with geometric shapes complete their meaning with the presence and participation of the viewer. His work can be found in the Sabatini garden of the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid Dhaka Pavilion (2008).
We mourn the passing of American artist Dan Graham. In the Sabatini Garden of the Museum we can find his work “Dhaka Pavilion” (2008). pic.twitter.com/O75MEqcN81
– Reina Sofía Museum (@museoreinasofia) February 20, 2022
Born in 1942 Urbana (Illinois), but raised in New Jersey, the artist declared himself self-taught in an interview for Babelia in 2019. “I grew up in a Jewish family. My childhood and adolescence were difficult. At the age of 13 I dropped out of school. My father was very abusive and, fleeing from him, I moved to the East Village with a friend. I educated myself by reading Sartre, Marcuse, Brecht, Lévi-Strauss…”, he said then.
Graham participated in ARCO in 2014 and, in recent decades, his work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing (China), the Metropolitan in New York, the Galician Center for Contemporary Art (CGAC), in whose terrace is another of his works, triangle pavilionand at the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona, among others.
Dan Graham’s ‘Triangular Pavilion’ is a permanent installation that you can visit on the CGAC terrace. If you are curious to meet her, request it at the museum reception. Access is possible every Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. (weather permitting) pic.twitter.com/LFIR4EPJg3
— CGAC (@CGACSantiago) March 28, 2021
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The American was also a gallery owner, art critic, graphic designer and filmmaker. your documentary Rock My Religion (1984) analyzed the relationship between religion and one of his passions: rock music. The film connects the history of the Shakers, a primitive religious community that practiced dancing during their rituals, with the rock scene of the time.
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