Dan Flavin Prints

Dan Flavin‘s limited edition prints reflect his pioneering exploration of light and space, translating his innovative use of fluorescent tubes into the print medium with meticulous attention to color and composition. These editions offer a unique perspective on Flavin’s contribution to minimalist art, capturing the essence of his work’s interaction with its environment and viewer.

The American post-war artist Dan Flavin (1933 – 1996) was a pioneer of light art and minimalism, famous for his iconic light installations. By arranging fluorescent light bulbs into differing geometric compositions, Flavin’s art sought to investigate the atmospheric and color effect of electric light in relation to space. His dedication to simple forms and use of industrial materials allied his practice to the work of fellow Minimalists Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt. After 1963, Dan Flavin’s work was composed almost entirely of light in the form of commercially available fluorescent tubes in ten colors (red, green, blue, yellow, pink, ultraviolet, and four whites) and five shapes (one circular and four straight fixtures of different lengths). This limitation of materials allowed him to extract banal hardware from its utilitarian context before inserting it into the world of high art. Major retrospectives of Dan Flavin’s work have been organized by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (1969), St. Louis Art Museum (1973), Kunsthalle Basel (1975), and MOCA in Los Angeles (1989). Both the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin in 1999 and the Dia Foundation for the Arts in 2004 presented major posthumous retrospectives of the artist’s work.

Auction record: US$3.1m, Sotheby’s, 2014

Dan Flavin Prints

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