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The years 1955-1965 saw artists wreaking havoc with the parameters of painting. If Abstract Expressionists had proposed art as the manipulation of paint on a flat plane, the American artist Dan Flavin further refined art as the manipulation of light itself. Starting out as a convert to Abstract Expressionism in the late 1950s, Flavin quickly disposed of painting's "frame," as sculptural light object. He first used fluorescent light in a 1961 series of square boxes with lights attached to the sides, titled "Icons." The spiritual connotations of the title were soon eschewed for a radical materiality: "It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else," he famously once said of his work: "everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered." By using such an everyday material (neon tubing) and arranging it in simple compositions (in rows, or as diagonals, grids, right angles, arcs), Flavin attained a powerful combination of ordinariness and grandeur, and a purity on a par with the modernist artists to whom he dedicated works--Brancusi, Mondrian, Tatlin. This catalogue offers the broadest appraisal of Flavin's achievement to date. With 200 color plates, it traces his development, from the early painted objects to the first neon tubes, beginning with the "Diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi)," and beyond. Also included here are his much admired drawings and prints.Dan Flavin (1933-1996) was born in New York to Irish-Catholic parents. During military service in 1954-55, he was trained as a meteorological technician; returning to New York in 1956, he studied art at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts and at Columbia University. Following his development of neon sculpture, Flavin's first museum exhibition was held at the St Louis Art Museum in 1973. Just two days before his death in November 1996, Flavin completed the design for his famous installation at the Menil Collection in Houston.

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Transforming color into light is one of the great themes of painting. Dan Flavin (1933–1996) used light as color and material. Employing ordinary neon light tubes, he developed a radical new form of art that freed the “picture” from its frame and turned it into a luminous, space-consuming color object. Expanding the wall painting by turning it into a light installation corresponded with the liberation of light from its traditionally spiritual meaning. Flavin’s works recall neon signs from urban nightlife or commonplace living-room lamps. Viewers find themselves immersed in a splendid play of light and color that allows the physical experience of unrestrained art. This publication elucidates the development of Flavin’s oeuvre―from the visual objects, the so-called Icons, to the spatial installations with neon tubes―and explains their genesis based on drawings and prints, an independent group of works that testifies to the artist’s visual sensitivity. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3522-3) Exhibition schedule: mumok. museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig, Vienna, October 13, 2012–February 3, 2013 | Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, March 16–August 18, 2013

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  • PublisherHatje Cantz Verlag
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 3775735232
  • ISBN 13 9783775735230
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages264

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