GRAND AVENUE, LOS ANGELES
FEBRUARY 15 - MAY 25 2009
Dan Graham
Figurative
1965
printed matter
collection Herbert, Gent, Belgium
Dan Graham: Beyond is the first North American retrospective of the art of Dan Graham (b.1942), examining his entire body of work in a focused selection of photographs, film and video, architectural models, indoor and outdoor pavilions, conceptual projects for magazine pages, drawings and prints, and writings. Graham has been a central figure in the development of contemporary art since the 1960s—from the rise of minimalism, conceptual art, and video and performance art, to explorations of architecture and the public sphere and collaborations with musicians and the culture of rock and roll. This exhibition traces the evolution of his practice across each of its major stages, while asserting ongoing themes, most notably, the changing relationship of the individual to society as filtered through American mass media and architecture at the end of the 20th century.
