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Two exhibitions
dal 12/7/2004 al 28/8/2004
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12/7/2004

Two exhibitions

Lisson Gallery, London

Lisson Gallery would like to announce a major new project by Santiago Sierra. This will be his first project for the Lisson since his three-part work opened Lisson New Space to acclaim and furore in 2002. Due to the controversial nature of Sierra’s work, we are unable to disclose details of this project until the time of the opening. A solo show by Dan Graham is running concurrently at Lisson New Space: the first solo exhibition of performance and text works.


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13 July to 21 August, 2004

Lisson Gallery would like to announce a major new project by Santiago Sierra opening Monday July 12th. This will be his first project for the Lisson since his three-part work opened Lisson New Space to acclaim and furore in 2002. His first "action" sparked an array of responses when, for the inaugural opening of the gallery, he sealed the space with corrugated iron. The second and third actions caused controversy when he paid the minimum wage to a group of unemployed people to simply stand facing a white wall, while one man stood alone facing a corner.

Born in Spain in 1966, Santiago Sierra has lived and worked in Mexico City since 1995. Last year, he came to the attention of a broad audience overnight with his "closure" of the Spanish Pavilion at the 50th Venice biennial. Having walled up the entrance to the pavilion with bricks, he stationed a Spanish police officer at the site allowing access via a dingy side entrance only to those who could produce a valid Spanish passport. The few who were allowed inside were confronted with nothing but empty rooms. The actual event took place in total secrecy and was documented by only one photograph.

His most recent large-scale project was 300 tonnen, 300 tons, 2004 for Kunsthaus Bregenz whereby he loaded the structural capacity of the Kunsthaus to its limit. The project was a response to the minimalist, cubic reduction of the material and formal language of the building’s architecture. Sierra calculated the maximum weight that the building could withstand and filled it with 300 tons of concrete blocks. Only by restricting the number of visitors allowed in at any one time could the precarious and critical balance of weight be maintained, averting the collapse of the building.

Santiago Sierra initiates actions that refer to everyday social life. By intervening directly in life, his work reveals political developments and social dynamics and shows how, with minimal intervention, systems and their ordered structures can be undermined. His socio- and art-critical actions and interactions stir up strong emotions in an audience that has grown accustomed to aesthetic appearances.

Due to the controversial nature of Sierra’s work, we are unable to disclose details of this project until the time of the opening.

For more information Lisa Rosendahl 020 535 0808. For press enquiries contact Lynne Gentle 020 7535 0818.

Lisson Gallery London 52-54 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA.
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13th July to 28 August 2004

Lisson New Space is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of performance and text works by Dan Graham, previewing at 29 Bell Street on 12th July from 6-9pm. Graham last showed "Sculptures/Pavilions" in 2001, his sixth solo show at Lisson.

Dan Graham’s work questions the relationship between architecture and its psychological effects on us and remains as poignant today as it did in the 1970’s when Graham first explored issues such as "the performative", exhibitionism, reflection, mirroring and the mundane. His work continues to investigate the voyeuristic act of seeing oneself reflected, while at the same time watching others. This overlay of experience creates a focused dual perception amid a changing environment and / or audience. His work highlights the awkwardness that occurs when intimate moments or details are rudimentarily broadcast in an impersonal manner.

Newspapers and magazines became a preferred method of disseminating his ideas during the late 1960s and 1970s, a means of reaching the widest possible audience while reducing the art to a worthless advert. "My performance works existed," stated Graham in 1982, "like my earlier "conceptual art" involving the use of magazine pages, on a boundary between formal, self-enclosed art and popular cultural assumptions and temporary, perhaps disposable, readings of that moment." Here art had reached the age of de-materialisation, a term coined by art critic, Lucy Lippard. Graham continued to isolate the structures of the art world in Proposal for Art Magazine, May, 1969, orchestrating a triad between three artists that share a hypothetical exhibition, commenting only on each other’s work and not their own, he described the outcome as a socio-psychological framework of the show. The art world itself and especially that of the artist are ridiculed and parodied further by Graham in INCOME (Outflow) PIECE, 1969, which offers the sale of shares in DAN GRAHAM INC. The artist himself, becoming a limited company for all to buy and part own.

Graham has described his pavilions as "producing a sense of uneasiness and psychological alienation through a constant play between feelings of inclusion and exclusion." It is in his early performance work that these ideas were first conceived and are most poignant.

Dan Graham lives and works in New York City. Recent exhibitions include a large museum show in 2001 titled "Dan Graham Retrospective", Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; which travelled to Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris; the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Holland and finally to the KIASMA, Helsinki. 2002 saw "Dan Graham, Works 1965-2000", at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany. Graham showed "Spiritus" at Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden in 2003 as well as an installation in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2003. In 2003, Graham unveiled his first permanent project in London, Waterloo Sunset at the Hayward Gallery, 2002-2003, a large glass structure on the Hayward roof overlooking the Thames. A large-scale pavilion, Greek Cross Pavilion, Open Shoji Screen Version, 2001 will be on show at Art Unlimited, Basel, in June 2004. He is currently working on a new public pavilion for the City of London due for completion in September 2004

Curated by Neil Robert Wenman with Dan Graham. Contact Lynne Gentle for press iinformation.

All contact details are contained on our ContactUs page.

Lisson Gallery is also very pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Santiago Sierra running concurrently at the gallery at 52-54 Bell Street. A full press release can be found in the other Current Show section.

Lisson Gallery London, 29 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA.

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