Dan Flavin's Light Dyes the Guggenheim of Bilbao as Violet Before Turning Off
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Bilbao (Spain), 10 Nov (EFE).- The light of a work by the conceptual and light artist Dan Flavin will dye the walls and visitors of the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, in the north of Spain, from this Wednesday in an exhibition made with fluorescent tubes that will soon cease to be made. The piece is [...] La entrada The light of Dan Flavin dyes violet to the Guggenheim of Bilbao before it goes out was first published in HolaNews.
While working as a watchman at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Dan Flavin (New York, 1933-1996) began to wonder why he did not use electric light to make art. Said and done. Two years later he placed a fluorescent tube in his studio. He described it like this: «The radiant tube was inscribed directly, dynamically, dramatically on the wall of my study: a gaseous, floating and implacable image that, thanks to its brightness, co…
The museum brings together installations of the artist made with fluorescent tubes, which transform the rooms of Gehry into an immersive experience of light and color
A fluorescent tube like those that illuminated offices and shops for decades can completely change a museum room.Dan Flavin, the protagonist of the new exhibition at Guggenheim Bilbao, worked with this material.The exhibition traces his trajectory between the 1960s and 1980s, from his first pieces of white light to the color installations that occupy entire rooms.Flavin, born in New York in 1933, began to think about the artistic possibilities o…
The light of a work by American artist Dan Flavin will dye violet, since this Wednesday, November 11, the walls of the Guggenheim Museum ...
The extraordinary exhibition presented by the Spanish museum highlights the difficulty of ordering Flavin's work in such a structured project
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