Vintage Dan Graham: From the Printed Word to Jeff Wall
“Vintage Dan Graham: Projects for Publication 1966–2009” 2009 Installation view detail / photo Scott Massey
As seen earlier this year in a long overdue survey at the Whitney Museum in New York, Dan Graham has an extensive practice in film, video, performance and sculpture. Now, a Vancouver venue is spotlighting Graham’s innovative use of periodicals and publications. “Vintage Dan Graham,” currently on at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, brings together four decades of projects meant to circulate in print outlets–such as his iconic Homes for America photo essay published in Arts Magazine in 1966–alongside the artist’s own writings about topics as diverse as art and architecture, sex and rock and roll. Though originally intended to be ephemeral objects that circulated to a wide audience, Graham’s publication projects have had surprising staying power and attest to the artist’s unique blend of wry humour and intellectually engaged conceptualism. Curated by David Platzker, a former director of New York’s Printed Matter and founding director of Specific Object, the show seems to have a particular resonance for the Vancouver art community where works like Graham’s inspired local projects, including Jeff Wall’s 1969 Landscape Manual. (1399 Johnston St, Vancouver BC)
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“Vintage Dan Graham: Projects for Publication 1966–2009” 2009 Installation view detail / photo Scott Massey |
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“Vintage Dan Graham: Projects for Publication 1966–2009” 2009 Installation view / photo Scott Massey |
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