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Dan Graham
Double Cylinder (The Kiss), 1994

Artwork Info

Artwork title
Double Cylinder (The Kiss)
Artist name
Dan Graham
Date created
1994
Classification
sculpture
Medium
two-way mirror, glass, and steel
Dimensions
each cylinder: 96 × 96 × 96 in. (243.8 × 243.8 × 243.8 cm)
Date acquired
1994
Credit
Collection SFMOMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund: gift of Frances and John Bowes, Emily L. Carroll, Collectors' Forum, Jean and Jim Douglas, Susan and Robert Green, Jerome S. Markowitz and Maria Monet Markowitz, Elaine McKeon, and Norah and Norman Stone
Copyright
© Dan Graham
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/94.310.1-9
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.

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Graham on how this work is both architecture and sculpture

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NARRATOR: 

Dan Graham’s Double Cylinder is a piece that you need to interact with. So go inside. Spend some time.  

 

DAN GRAHAM: 

I’m not a sculptor. My work is not sculpture. It’s halfway between sculpture, and architecture. 

 

NARRATOR: 

Here’s Graham, discussing this, one of his Pavilion pieces. 

 

GRAHAM: 

I think they have to do with your self-perception, and your perception of other people. So of course that brings up emotional issues. I think they’re really like childhood experiences. And of course the whole idea of being seen by yourself, being seen by other people, is a very primitive kind of situation. When you see yourself as another, so your relationship to yourself, it’s a little bit alienating—so it’s like a funhouse, a little schizophrenic, but I think this is our experience in daily life.

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