Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavinwas an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth1 April 1933
CountryUnited States of America
art thinking light
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
light use contemplating
I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.
light desire fantasy
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.
wall light pieces
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
it-is-what-it-is
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
blessed icons light
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
actual american-sculptor broken crucial illusions knew light planting played realizing room space
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.