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Dan Graham and Architecture | Studio-X Rio

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Channel: Columbia GSAPP · 2016 · Education

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Lecture of Michel Masson about the sculptor’s work and its relation with architecture

Dan Graham began his art career in the early 60’s by chance when he was invited to became partner of a very active but short life gallery called John Daniels Art Gallery in New York. Graham was broken after joining this initiative thus he had to return to his parents house and during the trip he had the chance to observe the “new city”. Homes for America was inspired by that experience, a notorious photographic essay about mass housing in North America suburbs, and which integrates the first magazines set of his works. Later Graham joined Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, it was the beginning of a phase in which he expressed interest in video, performance, and installation. This phase culminated in Public Space/Two Audiences, a work realized for Venice Biennale in 1976 that represents a self-critic for the artist. Graham recognizes that the installation got too close of “white cube” therefore as an exit he adopted the idea of “city plan”. from that point he began to propose urban interventions until the 80’s, when he started his famous pavilions. Dan Graham and Architecture has the aim to handle the artist´s evident relationship with architecture and the role it plays in his critical-conceptualist model.

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