I feel as though the last several months (actually years...) have pulled me further away from the arts than I feel comfortable with. Thus, this upcoming retrospective is overwhelming. Dan Flavin is one of the artists that first inspired me to pursue art history as an undergraduate as well as first consider a possible career in the curatorial vein. I cannot wait to visit LACMA in the upcoming weeks. Read below for a description of the exhibition from the Times:
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
May 13–August 12 | Modern and Contemporary Art Building
This is the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to minimalist artist Dan Flavin's full career. Organized by Dia Art Foundation in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and co-curated by Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, and Tiffany Bell, Director of the Dan Flavin catalogue raisonné, the exhibition features more than forty of Flavin's seminal fluorescent light works. Also presented is a special reconstruction of the corridors made for the E.F. Hauserman Co. showroom, formerly located at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. This will be the final destination of a multi-venue tour.
"Perhaps because Flavin is known so well as one of the founders of minimalism, his work has rarely been considered in all of its breadth and innovation before this retrospective," said Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director. "Flavin was one of the inventors of what we now know as 'installation art' and his groundbreaking use of color and light in architecture has been emulated not only in art, but in design and architecture. I count him among the most important figures in twentieth century art."
Untitled (For you, Leo, in long respect and admiration) 2, 1977
2 comments:
Pamela Ann...I miss you like no other. This write-up makes me want to ditch style writing and become an art critic.
xoxoxLauren
I wish those were my words....Alas, I think I have completely lost any sense of artistic style.
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