Walker Art Center Opens Major Retrospective Surveying the Career of Dan Graham
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Dan Graham: Beyond, a major
retrospective surveying the career of one of contemporary art’s most innovative
figures, will be on view at the Walker Art Center October 31, 2009–January 24,
2010. The first exhibition in the United States to showcase Graham’s entire body
of work, including his groundbreaking experiments with video
and performance, architecture and public spaces, and collaborations
with musicians and rock bands, is organized by The Museum of Contemporary
Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York. Curated by Bennett Simpson, MOCA associate curator, and Chrissie
Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney, this comprehensive survey
features photographs, film and video, architectural models, indoor and outdoor
pavilions, conceptual projects for magazine pages, drawings and prints, and
writings.