Reacting to the excess of pictures and products of the new consumer culture, as of the mid-Sixties, the conceptual artists dematerialised traditional sculpture and painting, inaugurating other artistic possibilities. Among these conceptual artists, Dan Graham, (Urbana, Illinois, 1942) is one of the most eclectic and open. In the mid-Sixties, Graham began his artistic journey with a series of operations which test the limits of the art system and the relationship between private space and public space.
The artist has managed a gallery, published articles on architecture as a work of art, created film performances and developed a bridge between art and architecture.
Taking an interest in the perception of experience and the subtle and constant changes in awareness that accompany it, in his first films he investigated the experience of seeing (and filming) in a series of performance-related filmic works. In these first films of the collection, Graham doesn't film subjects, preferring to test perception in the broadest sense, investigating solutions in which the body's natural faculties are upheld or amplified by the camera lens.
Works of art in our Collection
- Children's Day Care, CD Rom, Cartoon and Computer Screen Library Project
- Five Films: Sunset to Sunrise (1969), Binocular Zoom ( 1969 -70), Roll (1970), Helix/ Spiral - Simone Forti (1973), Helix/Spiral- Simone Forti (1973)