Dan Graham

For this new exhibition at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Dan Graham presents a new pavilion as well as the video Death by Chocolate: West Edmonton Shopping Mall (2005) and an anthology of recent pavilion projects.

Dan Graham is known for his films of the late 60s and early 70s. In these early films, the mutability between observer and observed can be seen as an antecedent for the duality of transparency and reflection that comes later in the pavilions. Democratically rooted in everyday urban life and activity, Graham’s pavilions are functional structures, hybrids between sculpture and architecture. They have sources in architecture and urban design; the skyscraper and two-way mirror corporate office buildings; 18th Century English landscape design; the folly and the picturesque; elliptical neo-Baroque space and the Rococo.

Dan Graham has described his pavilions as “producing a sense of uneasiness and psychological alienation through a constant play between feelings of inclusion and exclusion.”

Dan Graham is born in 1942 in Urbana, Illinois. His work has been exhibited in numerous Belgian and international exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Documenta VII, IX and X in Kassel; Skulptur Projekte ’87 and ’97, Münster; the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen; Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Torino; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo. He lives and works in New York.

September 12 – October 24, 2015