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Email PageThe Stars Never Lie, but the Astrologs Lie about the Stars
April 7, 2007- May 12, 2007
Reception: April 7, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dylan Graham
Rare
521 W 26th StIn his second solo show at RARE, New Zealand-born Dutch artist Dylan Graham presents new hand-cut paper works that exhibit a superlative technique of the most intricate virtuosity. The cutouts depict silhouettes of three-dimensional forms held together by a repetitive grid with filigree-style embellishments. Opting not to use high-tech processes, he allows his hand to show through the ornately decorated narrative grids that follow in the folk art tradition of papel picado, or perforated paper.
Graham also deals with the same age-old formal concerns as architects and sculptors. There is an inherent natural balance and harmony in every work resulting from his struggle between what to leave in and what to take out. Meticulously and minimally executed from a single sheet of paper, each work exhibits a light and decorative delicateness that stands in stark contrast to the heavy burden of its content. Continuing to address issues of colonialism, forced migration, and servitude, Graham’s gaze has expanded to include broader historical events that examine class, politics, and world war. He explores the impact of these events from a personal perspective and how that in turn affects the collective society on a massive scale. The repercussions of how colonialists, explorers, and settlers manipulated their logic/reasoning to justify inhumane practices are still being felt today.
From 1993 to 1997, Graham studied at Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academy. In 2000, he received a Master of Fine Arts in Autonomous Art from The Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Graham was awarded a year-long residency beginning in January 2007 at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) based in New York City. His first museum exhibition in the US, consisting entirely of paper cutouts, was held in the fall of 2006 at The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. Last summer Graham exhibited a monumental three-dimensional work, entitled Kingdom (2006), at De Vleeshal museum in The Netherlands; a review can be accessed on the Saatchi blog. A review of his show last season at RARE appeared in the September issue of Art in America (p. 167).
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