Dan
Flavin
Dan
Flavin
Flavin
American, 1933 — 1996
Dan Flavin (1933-1996) is born and has lived in New York. He was considered as an emblematic figure of Minimalism.
In the early 1960s he began a systematic exploration of art, investigating its relationship to the real sources of light. Industrial fluorescent tubes, arranged in simple, often symmetrical compositions, constitute the raw material of his work. He is mainly inspired by Duchamp’s ready-mades, which lead him to decide that industrial neon could be used as a basic, modular shape with which he could create a potentially unlimited number of works. The pieces can be arranged in different ways and propose a critical relationship with space, going in the direction of structural theory, contradiction, poetic metamorphosis by light.
Dan Flavin's works in the Pinault Collection were shown for the first time during the "Where Are We Going?" exhibition in 2006 at Palazzo Grassi, Venice.
In the early 1960s he began a systematic exploration of art, investigating its relationship to the real sources of light. Industrial fluorescent tubes, arranged in simple, often symmetrical compositions, constitute the raw material of his work. He is mainly inspired by Duchamp’s ready-mades, which lead him to decide that industrial neon could be used as a basic, modular shape with which he could create a potentially unlimited number of works. The pieces can be arranged in different ways and propose a critical relationship with space, going in the direction of structural theory, contradiction, poetic metamorphosis by light.
Dan Flavin's works in the Pinault Collection were shown for the first time during the "Where Are We Going?" exhibition in 2006 at Palazzo Grassi, Venice.
