In a re-creation of two groundbreaking shows, Dan Flavin’s strange charm remains undimmed.
In 1963, Dan Flavin made his breakthrough work of fluorescent-light art, and for the rest of his life he stuck with what he knew. Can you blame him? After a few years of messing around with various media, he’d found a golden ticket. His fluorescents massaged the mind but never forgot to delight the eyes. In the same breath, they flattered rival ideas of art: candy-colored Pop, terse Minimalism, conceptual abracadabra.
Few artists made such a gleaming weapon of banality. From the start, Flavin opted for tube-shaped, commercially available fluorescent lamps, the kind that invaded American office buildings during the Second World War, and the commonness of the material is part of his work’s peculiar flavor.
How could there not be, when we’re talking about light, one of the most mystical things known to humankind? The trick with Flavin’s situations—the reason they’re minimalist art for people who aren’t quite sure if they like Minimalism—is that they mean exactly what they are but plainly mean something more.
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