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Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933, Jamaica, New York – November 29, 1996, Riverhead, New York) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.
Daniel Nicholas Flavin Jr. was born in New York of Irish Catholic descent and sent to Catholic schools. He studied for the priesthood at the Immaculate Conception Preparatory Seminary in Brooklyn between 1947 and 1952 before leaving to join his fraternal twin brother, David John Flavin, and enlist United States Air Force. During military service in 1954–55, Flavin was trained as an air weather meteorological technician and studied art through the adult extension program of the University of Maryland in Korea. Upon his return to New York in 1956, Flavin briefly attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts and studied art under Albert Urban. He later studied art history for a short time at the New School for Social Research, then moved on to Columbia University, where he studied painting and drawing.
Dan Flavin: Constructed Light
Light Tree : Interactive Dan Flavin by HYBE (2011)
3 Minute Wonder: Dan Flavin – Untitled
Modern Collections - Dan Flavin, "Diagonal of May 25, 1963", 1963
John Weber on Dan Flavin
DAN FLAVIN im Museum DASMAXIMUM
Dan Flavin Minimalist Art. The Art of America Documentary clip
"I think about light"
Dan Flavin, James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson. Painting with light.
Dan Flavin TAMUCC Biography
Steve Morse, conservator for the Dan Flavin Studio, talks about the installation Dan Flavin: Constructed Light at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
Full Color LED on custom-designed controller board with Integrated IR Sensor, Acrylic, Stainless Frame. 15(W)x235(H)x38(D)cm / HYBE's Light Tree: Interactive Dan Flavin re-illuminates the minimalist fluorescent light tubes of Dan Flavin(1933-1996) from the 1960s, through digital technology. Experimenting with light and its effect, Flavin explored artistic meaning in relationships between light, situation, and environment. The readymade fluorescent light fixtures he used created space divided and adjusted by light and composition, offering a newly structured space with light. HYBE's work expands the logic of Flavin by reinforcing the physical property of light through interactive media. It presents an escape from traditional lighting, as light and color changes when touched by viewers. Lig...
Installed for one day in a school, Liverpool. As part of DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, acclaimed film director Mike Figgis worked with Tate on a series of short films that focus on conversations with people from Liverpool about works of art in the first floor displays. Throughout 2009 select art works were taken into locations around the city, where members of the public were invited to talk about them in these new contexts. http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?venueid=4&showid;=2279 Directed by Mike Figgis. Produced by Red Mullet & Tate Media.
Curator of Education Terri Thornton discusses Dan Flavin's "Diagonal of May 25, 1963" 1963 from The Modern's Collection.
Art Dealer John Weber describes his reaction when he first saw a work by Dan Flavin, in a 2004 interview with Anne-Brigitte Sirois of Art State LLC
Dan Flavins Lichtinstallationen sind weltberühmt. Das Museum DASMAXIMUM in Traunreut (Bayern) zeigt in einem Gebäude einer ehemaligen Munitionsfabrik seine Arbeit "European Couples" aus den Jahren 1966-71. Daneben sind einige Arbeiten ohne Titel aus dem Jahr 1995 zu sehen. Flavins Kunst verwandelt die im 2. Weltkrieg zur Herstellung von Giftgas-Granaten genutzten Räume in zeitlos schöne, subtil narkotisierende Farb-Wolken. http://www.dasmaximum.com http://www.diabeacon.org/sites/main/danflavinartinstitute http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/dan-flavin/chronology/ Soundtrack: Winfrid Parkinson This video shows artwork of Dan Flavin (1933 --1996) installed in 2011 inside a private German museum called "DASMAXIMUM". The place was a munitions factory during World War II manufacturing po...
Dan Flavin Minimalist Art. The Art of America Documentary clip Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Andrew Graham-Dixon charts the history of American art on a coast-to-coast journey. Part 3 - WHAT LIES BENEATH In the final part of his United States odyssey, Andrew Graham-Dixon feels the pulse of contemporary America. In the final part of his United States odyssey, Andrew Graham-Dixon feels the pulse of contemporary America. Beginning in Levittown - the first mass-produced suburb - Andrew uncovers the dark side of post-war consumerism and the role artists have played in challenging the status quo. He visits New York's Metropolitan Museum to see the most subversive artw...
Preview the amazing fluorescent installations of "Dan Flavin: A Retrospective," at LACMA through August 12. "Not to be missed," says the Los Angeles Times, "flat-out thrilling."
Painting with light. Dan Flavin, James Turrell, Olafur Elliasson and other people.
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AMERICAN ART IN THE 1960s a film by Michael Blackwood (1972, 57 minutes, color) Website: http://www.michaelblackwoodproductions.com/arts_americanartsinthesixties.php With the participation of: Carl Andre, John Cage, Dan Flavin, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Irwin, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Robert Morris, Ken Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Jules Olitski, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, George Segal, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and critic Clement Greenberg Narration by Barbara Rose During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion of artistic energy produced Pop Art, Minimalism, color-field painting, and hard-edged abstraction. Sculptors an...
Phone-videos of monumental works by American minimalist Dan Flavin, refashioned into large-scale filmic ‘captures’ by Australian artist Christian Capurro, feature in SLAVE, part of ACCA’s Important Australian Artists program. Capurro’s phone-videos were made during a residency at the Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna. An ongoing series, they are part homage, part theft, yet also compelling 'portraits' of Flavin’s iconic fluorescent monuments. Capurro re-monumentalizes these works at an architectural scale in ACCA's own iconic architecture. SLAVE represents a strain of the new film and image making that plays with some of the conventions that operate in the domains of reproduction, especially how they apply to, and are used in presenting the work of art. Christian Capurro: SLAVE 16 August – 28...
Eric Michel vit à Paris. Il se définit comme un artiste 'light art' multimedia. Son travail sur la lumière, en particulier ses tableaux saturés de pigments purs, ses vidéos et ses installations fluorescentes, s'inscrit essentiellement dans la tradition d'une quête de l'immatériel, dans la lignée d'Yves Klein, James Turrell et Dan Flavin. http://www.ericmichel.net/ http://www.iguzzini.fr/neon
David Zwirner Gallery is one of the leading New York art galleries that represents world renown artists like Richard Serra, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Jeff Koons, Marlene Dumas and others. This is an interview about Milton Avery's Circus and Vaudeville series completed by the artist in the 1930's. For more videos from galleryIntell please go to: http://www.galleryintell.com For more information on Milton Avery and this video please go to: http://www.galleryintell.com/david-zwirner-gallery-adaa-the-art-show-2013/ galleryIntell is a unique online platform for all original content primarily in the form of video interviews with the top artists, gallery directors, auctions and other art experts. From the history of art to the business of art and more! In addition to the video interv...
Artists on Artists Lecture Series T.J. Wilcox on Dan Flavin and the Hudson River School November 16, 2009, 6:30pm
Dal 1997 ospita permanentemente Untitled, l'ultima opera dell'artista minimalista Dan Flavin, la cui progettazione, stimolata da una lettera del parroco all'artista, fu completata a distanza due giorni prima della morte dell'autore, avvenuta il 29 novembre 1996. L'opera fu realizzata ed installata solo l'anno successivo grazie all'interessamento del Dia Art Foundation di New York e della Fondazione Prada. L'installazione permanente è costituita da tubi al neon blu e verdi per la navata centrale, rossi per il transetto, oro per l'abside, nel transetto e nell'abside sono anche presenti delle file di neon a luce di Wood. L'architettura della chiesa e la disposizione dei neon rendono ben separate le varie zone di luce, di sera ben visibili anche dall'esterno. La variazione dei colori rimanda ...
Dr. Alistair Rider and Dr. Stephen Moonie hosted a discussion on Dan Flavin on 27 January 2016, at The Fruitmarket Gallery.
Dan Flavin Corners, Barriers and Corridors September 10 - October 24, 2015 537 West 20th Street, David Zwirner, New York