<p>DAN GRAHAM</p> <p>HOMAGE TO DAN GRAHAM</p> <p>09.03 | 16h-19h</p> <p>Just over a year ago, we lost an undisputed artist and friend in Dan Graham. It is with deep pride and honour that Galeria Filomena Soares is pleased to announce an exhibition dedicated to Dan Graham (1942-2022), <em>to one of the greatest and most critical artist in contemporary art.</em> a um dos maiores críticos e artista da arte contemporânea.</p> <p> </p> <p>Recognized as one of the leading artists and theoreticians of post-war art. Over the past fifty years, Graham's practice has spanned writing, photography, performance, architecture, installation, video, and curating. His work examines the social functions of contemporary culture and its systems, from rock music, through television and visual arts, to architecture. His influences are broad and eclectic, including Minimalism, Modernist Architecture, landscape design over the centuries, city maps, skateboarding culture, rock icon Patti Smith, landscape architect Günther Vogt, and artist-writer John Chamberlain.</p> <p> </p> <p>Despite his recent rejection of Conceptual Art as a term, he was one of its early pioneers through the first text-based works, typographic wall pieces and schematic poems, not to mention the seminal illustrated essay for Homes for America magazine (1966). He exhibited the work of his peers Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson at the John Daniels Gallery in New York, where he was briefly the curator and director, before showing alongside these and many other Minimalists and Conceptualists during the 1960s and 70s.</p> <p> </p> <p>Graham's pavilions are made of modern materials such as mirrored glass, sliding doors, stainless steel and aluminium, but draw inspiration from a wide range of architectural typologies from different periods of history: from the rustic hut to Rococo pavilions, Mies van der Rohe's modern pavilion form to gazebos, bus stops and telephone booths. The pavilions are both architecture and art, as well as functional and sculptural structures. They are designed for the viewer to enter and surround, and are only activated with their presence.</p> <p> </p> <p>The exhibition presents its last Pavilion, an elliptical structure composed of double-sided mirrored glass with an access to the interior of the work through its opening. Through the mirrored glass, the visitor is confronted by his own image and by the image of other visitors, opening the possibility to create multiple perspectives - in such a way that he experiences a sense of discomfort, given the constant displacement between interior and exterior space, between reflection and transparency, as an individual and part of a group.</p> <p> </p> <p>In the two entrance rooms we present a set of Models, works that are simultaneously architecture and art and at the same time functional and sculptural structures. They are designed for the spectator to enter and surround them, and are only activated with his or her presence. Maintaining the organic ideology of the pavilions, the confrontation by the image itself and the multiple perspectives are poetic conditions maintained by the artist.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: left">© Images by Intwolife</p>