American artist Dan Flavin is considered founder of the minimalist movement. His works, which he calls "icons", consist of installations made with neon lights and colors with which involve the viewer in an exciting visual experience.
Flavin uses neon of different sizes and in a limited range of colors to create continuous relationships between lights and space. The games of complementary shades to which gives life exploiting the spaces between the tubes confer to every work a different expressive power. The artist uses the visual perception of the spectator and the physical laws of light to transform simple objects that belong to everyday life in surprising and innovative works of art.
From March 16th to August 18th 2013, the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, in collaboration with the MUMOK Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, hosts for the first time in Switzerland, the works of the author. The exhibition titled Lights consists of thirty selected works that aim to provide a representative picture of the career of the American artist.
Most popular
Love site
Love site
TO THE
TOP