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Dan Graham (December 1, 1986)02:02:48

Dan Graham describes his various pavilion installations, and explains that he is only interested in pavilions as exhibition space rather than creating a sculpture for a museum. He talks about the influence of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion and how “nature could exist in a cubist play of reflections.”

Graham talks about his work as “somewhere between architecture and sculpture,” and his interest in their intersection while avoiding “utopian self-contained objects.” In describing his “favorite unbuilt project,” Graham states the “cinematic” is a component of all architecture. Graham describes his preference for a limited palette of materials and avoiding color.

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