Dan Flavin (German Edition): Lights - Hardcover

Fuchs, Rainer; Kraus, Karola; Neuner, Stefan

 
9783775735230: Dan Flavin (German Edition): Lights

Synopsis

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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An extensive monograph featuring the oeuvre by the Minimal Art pioneer who works with light.

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 "painting" from its framework and turned it into a luminous color object with a three-dimensional appearance. Expanding the wall painting by turning it into a light installation corresponded with the liberation of light from its traditionally spiritual meanings. Flavin's works recall neon signs from urban nightlife or banal living room lamps. The viewer finds himself immersed in a splendid play of light and color that allows a physical experience of an unlimited kind of art. This publication discusses how the painted objects, the so-called Icons, eventually developed into the three-dimensional neon tubes, and uses examples of drawings and prints-which, as an independent group of works, testify to Flavin's visual sensibility.

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