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Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
May 13, 2007–August 12, 2007 | Art of the Americas 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."
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective is organized by Dia Art Foundation in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The exhibition and accompanying publications are made possible in part by The Henry Luce Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Lannan Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Los Angeles presentation is sponsored by Lexus and supported in part by the Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic Foundation.
Artworks above, left to right:
the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), 1963, yellow fluorescent light, 8 ft. long on the diagonal, Dia Art Foundation; "monument" 1 for V. Tatlin, 1964, cool white fluorescent light, 8 ft. high, Dia Art Foundation.
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ONLINE
"A Sort of Romanticism": Remembering Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin . . . in daylight and cool white
Slideshow
Essay by Michael Govan
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Conversations with Artists: James Welling
May 31
Conversations with Artists: Jennifer Steinkamp
June 7
Art Chats: Tours
June–July
Lecture: Tiffany Bell on Fluorescent Light as Art
July 15
* Formerly the Modern and Contemporary Art Building (see map for details).
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