Art Metropole Press Release



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TORONTO BOOK LAUNCH AND LECTURE Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide By Josh Thorpe Toronto Book Launch with Dan Graham at Art Metropole Sunday October 4, 2009 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 788 King St. W. Public Lecture by Dan Graham at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto Monday October 5, 2009 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Room 103, 230 College Street Tel. 416 978-2253 A webcast of the lecture is now available: http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20091005-ALD/index.htm Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide, Art Metropole, (Toronto), 2009, 12.7 x 10.2 cm, 80 pp. full colour, perfect bound, softcover $20 - Purchase Now		Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide, Art Metropole, Toronto; 2009

Since the '60s, Dan Graham has been making radical work in print, video, performance, and architectural installation. In the late '70s he began designing his pavilions, structures in steel and semi-reflective glass that comment on local architecture and offer rich social moments for people to reflect on the world around them.

Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide is the first publication to provide comprehensive and direct information on the remote international sites where his public works may be discovered and enjoyed.

Graham's pavilions are parodies of corporate architecture, moments of psychedelic experience in the urban landscape, shelters for the weather-beaten pedestrian, romantic rendezvous for lovers, photo-ops for tourists, and funhouses for kids. This guide provides photos, locations, and access information for public works across North and South America, Europe, and Asia. It is the product of a research collaboration between Toronto artist and author Josh Thorpe, Toronto artist-run centre Art Metropole, and Dan Graham himself.

Dan Graham was born 1942 in Urbana, Illinois (USA). He has been working internationally since the 1960s. A pioneer of early performance, video, conceptual, and post-minimal art, Graham is also a writer, critic, and curator. Graham's body of work includes video installations, photos, text works, films, architectural models, and fully fledged architectural installations using steel and two-way mirror glass. His work is concerned with a social interaction between viewers and objects.

Josh Thorpe is an artist, musician, writer, and publisher living in Toronto. He has a Masters in Visual Studies from University of Toronto and he is currently employed by the Ontario College of Art and Design. Thorpe's work has been seen and heard in Berlin, Paris, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Joliette, Quebec.

Guests standing and circulating

Dan Graham signs a book surrounded by guests.

Josh Thorpe, editor of Dan Graham Pavilions, in conversation

Dan Graham in coversation

Dan Graham (back to camera), Andy Fabo, Josh Thorpe, Stephen Andrews and others

Dan Graham in an introspective moment

For more info contact Ann Dean (416) 703 4400 or info@artmetropole.com

Art Metropole is a non-profit artist-run centre incorporated in 1974. We'd like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, as well as private donors for their support.