Galería Cayón

DAN GRAHAM. New Classic Models
February 28 – April 12, 2019
Madrid

Coinciding with ARCOmadrid 2019, Galería Cayón is pleased to present New Classic Models, the first solo exhibition at the gallery dedicated to one of the most influential artists of our time: Dan Graham (Urbana, USA, 1942). The show brings together a selection of models that offer insight into his most recent architectural and spatial research.

The exhibition also features Production/Reception (Piece for Two Cable TV Channels), 1976–2018, a work in which the artist reflects on the impact of new media on domestic life and contemporary society.

The work of this multidisciplinary creator explores the communication of artistic practice and both individual and collective perception through installation, video, performance, drawing, photography, and architecture. Since the beginning of his career in the 1960s, Graham investigated perceptual structures with a body of work that actively involves the viewer, making them an essential element of the piece.

His video installations, which he began developing in 1974, aim to create a closed circuit in which the audience becomes an active participant in the action unfolding on the screen.

Concerned with mass culture, mass media, and shopping malls, from 1975 onward Graham introduced a fundamental material into his contemporary artistic practice: mirror-glass. This would lead him, beginning in 1978, to develop a series of constructions known as Pavilions, which embody a profound reflection on architecture, American urbanism, and the landscape.

These installations, linked to the idea of the modern shopping mall—the “temple” of contemporary society—and to corporate architecture, become stages that invite play and entertainment through their reflective surfaces and labyrinthine configurations.

Circular, 2018

Two-way mirror glass, aluminum, MDF, and acrylic

2/3

92 x 125 x 125 cm.

DG002.2

Model D, 2018

Two-way mirror glass, aluminum, MDF, and acrylic

3/3

92 x 125 x 125 cm.

DG003.3

Model A, 2018

Two-way mirror glass, aluminum, MDF, and acrylic

1/3

92 x 125 x 100 cm.

DG004.1

Model C, 2018

Two-way mirror glass, aluminum, MDF, and acrylic

1/3

92 x 125 x 125 cm.

DG005.1

Model B, 2018

Two-way mirror glass, aluminum, MDF, and acrylic

1/3

92 x 125 x 125 cm.

DG006.1

Untitled, 2018

Two-way mirror glass, aluminum, MDF, and acrylic

1/3

92 x 125 x 125 (cm.)

DG007.1

Untitled, 2018

Two-way mirror glass, aluminum, MDF, and acrylic

1/3

92 x 125 x 125 cm.

DG008.1

Portico, 2018

Two-way mirror glass, aluminum, MDF, and acrylic

2/3

92 x 125 x 100 cm.

DG009.2

Untitled, 2018

Two-way mirror glass, aluminum, MDF, and acrylic

3/3

92 x 125 x 125 cm.

DG010.3

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