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Dan Graham
This is Taka Ishii Gallery's second exhibition with pioneering American artist Dan Graham. Graham was at the forefront of many of the most significant developments in conceptual art. Investigating many disciplines from music, architecture, anthropology, and astrology, Graham took in many different forms, including text, performance, architectural pavilion, and video, and introduced subversive ideas into people’s daily lives. His work has been exhibited extensively, internationally and is represented in numerous private and public collections.
The exhibition consists of comprehensive collections of Graham’s work and the chronological development of his long career as an artist. Graham described himself as a ‘provocateur’ and ‘rebel’. The presented works are also in Graham’s book 'Dan Graham’s New Jersey' (2012). “Homes for America” (1966-67), which consists of half of the book, is a sequence of photos of suburban development in New Jersey, accompanied by a text charting the economics of land use and the obsolescence of architecture and craftsmanship. The other half of the book is photographs taken in 2006, during a series of study trips that Graham conducted with faculty from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and other guests.
A series of two juxtaposed photographs, taken in the same suburban cityscapes in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, or 2000s, show a multilayered element of repetition and difference, spatially and temporally. A series of incorporating two mirrors to practice intersubjective realms is also introduced, which started in the 1970s. Graham’s continued interest in New Jersey, buildings, kitsch, and America can be seen through the series.
"Clinic for a Suburban Site" (1978) shows Graham’s interest in psychology and gaze. It is a speculative project that raises questions about the boundaries between public and private, the concepts of “inside” and “outside,” and the “traditional disposition of the family space” according to Graham. The building facade in a typical American suburb has been replaced by glass, while the house’s interior is divided into public and private sections by a mirror. In doing so, Graham critiques the modernist ideal that the literal transparency of glass in architecture also leads to social transparency. At the same time that the house’s inhabitants can gaze at the environment and activity outside, they become objects on display, and this concept is connected to Graham’s next development of the pavilion series.
Graham’s critical engagement manifests most alluringly in the glass and mirrored pavilions, designed since the late 1970s. The Two-way mirrors within the pavilion, create unexpected reflections and voyeuristic elements simultaneously watching oneself and being able to watch others. Three models of the pavilion are Graham’s last work unveiled in 2022. They are poised between sculpture and architecture, drawing attention as instruments of expression, psychological strongholds, makers of social change, and prisms through which people view others.
The exhibition consists of comprehensive collections of Graham’s work and the chronological development of his long career as an artist. Graham described himself as a ‘provocateur’ and ‘rebel’. The presented works are also in Graham’s book 'Dan Graham’s New Jersey' (2012). “Homes for America” (1966-67), which consists of half of the book, is a sequence of photos of suburban development in New Jersey, accompanied by a text charting the economics of land use and the obsolescence of architecture and craftsmanship. The other half of the book is photographs taken in 2006, during a series of study trips that Graham conducted with faculty from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and other guests.
A series of two juxtaposed photographs, taken in the same suburban cityscapes in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, or 2000s, show a multilayered element of repetition and difference, spatially and temporally. A series of incorporating two mirrors to practice intersubjective realms is also introduced, which started in the 1970s. Graham’s continued interest in New Jersey, buildings, kitsch, and America can be seen through the series.
"Clinic for a Suburban Site" (1978) shows Graham’s interest in psychology and gaze. It is a speculative project that raises questions about the boundaries between public and private, the concepts of “inside” and “outside,” and the “traditional disposition of the family space” according to Graham. The building facade in a typical American suburb has been replaced by glass, while the house’s interior is divided into public and private sections by a mirror. In doing so, Graham critiques the modernist ideal that the literal transparency of glass in architecture also leads to social transparency. At the same time that the house’s inhabitants can gaze at the environment and activity outside, they become objects on display, and this concept is connected to Graham’s next development of the pavilion series.
Graham’s critical engagement manifests most alluringly in the glass and mirrored pavilions, designed since the late 1970s. The Two-way mirrors within the pavilion, create unexpected reflections and voyeuristic elements simultaneously watching oneself and being able to watch others. Three models of the pavilion are Graham’s last work unveiled in 2022. They are poised between sculpture and architecture, drawing attention as instruments of expression, psychological strongholds, makers of social change, and prisms through which people view others.
Schedule | May 28 (Tue) 2024-Jun 22 (Sat) 2024 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/archives/37947/ | ||||
| Venue | Taka Ishii Gallery http://www.takaishiigallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 3F Complex665, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hbiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 7 at Azabu-juban Station on the Nanboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6434-7010 | ||||
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