Marian Goodman Gallery is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the late writer, artist, and curator Dan Graham. Housed in New York and curated by fellow artist and longtime friend, Peter Fischli, Is There Life After Breakfast? presents over 30 years of work highlighting Graham’s impact on the world of sculpture and video installation, as well as his lifelong interest in music and film.
Most immediately present is a room-encompassing installation dubbed Hedges and Two Way Mirror Glass Labyrinth (1991). Constructed with two way mirrors, aluminum, glass and living plants, the installation taps into the visual lexicon of architecture to unearth humans’ relationship with the natural world.
In the North Gallery, Fischli arranges CD’s and greatest hits that he and Graham exchanged over the years, reflecting their conceptual art practices. “With Dan’s texts of bright thinking, profound knowledge and sharp analyses of lyrics in popular music in mind, I always speculated why he selected a song—the so-called meaning of the song and what that meaning meant to Dan,” said Fischli in a past statement. “The contradiction of the vernacular and the distinctive, or the ridiculous and the sublime, was well balanced in the playlist of each CD.”
Fischli also presents a mise-en-scène that is part suburban arcade, part manga, and video lounge, as well as prints and ephemera by Graham in the South Gallery. Is There Life After Breakfast? will be on view in New York until April 29.
Elsewhere, Florida Department of Education says David has artistic and historical value.
