Dan Flavin : lights
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Dan Flavin : lights
Hatje Cantz, 2012
- : Museum edition
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- : German
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Lights
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Note
Exhibition catalogue
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition, "Dan Flavin - Lights", Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria, October 13, 2012 - February 3, 2013 ; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, March 16 - August 18, 2013
Biography: p. 204-207
Bibliography: p. 212-213
Description and Table of Contents
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: German ISBN 9783775735223
Description
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. (English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3523-0) Exhibition schedule: mumok. museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig, Vienna, October 13, 2012-February 3, 2013 | Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, February-June 2013
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: English ISBN 9783775735230
Description
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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