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Dimensions: 102.5 by 72.5cm.; 40 3/8 by 28 1/2 in.
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Provenance: Private Collection, Germany
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
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Notes: These works are both unique.
One of the pioneers of Minimalism, in the 1960s Dan Graham, along with other exhibiting artists from the movement such as Dan Flavin, Donald Judd and Sol Lewitt, moved beyond the confines of the gallery space. Graham did this by purchasing a cheap, instamatic camera with which to photograph suburban houses and diners in his native New Jersey, and sought to illustrate through his amateur photographs that the notion of the 'specific object' - which his contemporaries such as Judd were trying to promote through the reductive forms of Minimalism - could equally be applied to examples and contexts outside of the gallery space and which related to people's everyday lives. As Graham later explained, "I wanted to show that Minimalism was related to a real social situation that could be documented." (the artist cited in: Two-way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art, 1999)