The Cayon Gallery Brings Dan Graham’s Work to Madrid
Coinciding with ARCOmadrid 2019, the gallery opens a solo show of the North American multidisciplinary artist. Graham is one of the most influential creators on the international contemporary scene.
“Untitled” (2011). Work by Dan Graham at Ocula.com
The ARCOmadrid fair is one of the most important and eagerly awaited artistic events of the year in Spain. Every February hundreds of works of art land in the capital, shaping a scene as media-friendly as it is interesting. But if there is something that gives the fair a very special visual sense, it is the exhibitions that are held and organized to coincide with the event. Among them, this year the show New Classic Models stands out, which will bring together at the Galeria Cayon a selection by the prestigious multidisciplinary artist Dan Graham (Urbana, USA, 1942). The show can be seen from 28 February to 12 April 2019, and the opening will feature the presence of the artist. In his works Graham investigates the relationship/communication of art with the viewer and the interaction between the two, also imbuing them with a social meaning. His installations invite reflection on aspects as interesting as the media and the new forms of leisure related to consumption, personified by shopping centers.
Report on the exhibition Dan Graham: Beyond. Whitney Museum of New York (2009). Published by wnyc.org
Dan Graham’s work is known especially for his installations, large-format pieces that allow the viewer to enter their interior and “lose” themselves in their reflections and sinuous trajectories. However, the artist has developed his career in multiple formats ranging from drawing or photography to performance or video art. Convinced of the need to introduce the viewer into the work, his pieces turn whoever looks at (or interacts with) them into part of the creative process, eliminating the barrier of the canvas or the sculpture. From 1975 Graham begins to work with a material that has become an icon of his works: the mirror. His installation-buildings Pavilions, created from 1978 to the present day, attempt to be a means of raising awareness about the intrusion of architecture into the landscape: a reflection on the need to work in collaboration with the environment, so as not to make human presence intrusive. Dan Graham’s work is present in museums such as the MoMA in New York, the Tate Gallery in London or the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, which since 2016 has exhibited the artist’s DACA Pavilion thanks to the donation of Juan Varez Benegas.
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