Dan Flavin Lights - Hardcover

Rainer Fuchs

 
9783775735223: Dan Flavin Lights

Synopsis

Transforming color into light is one of the great themes of painting. Dan Flavin (19331996) 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. Flavins 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 Flavins oeuvrefrom the visual objects, the so-called Icons, to the spatial installations with neon tubesand explains their genesis based on drawings and prints, an independent group of works that testifies to the artists visual sensitivity. (English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3523-0) Exhibition mumok. museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig, Vienna, October 13, 2012February 3, 2013 Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, FebruaryJune 2013

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