Flavin
In neon we trust!
When we find ourselves looking at neon tubes in a museum, they often belong to a work by Dan Flavin. Flavin used this material for the first time in 1963 for his work ‘Diagonal of May 25’. From then on, neon reappears in almost all of his works. Flavin is fascinated by industrially produced objects; but what interests him most is light and its capacity to redefine everything around it. Light makes the tube invisible, turning the solid object into a spiritual vision. Material or immaterial? Physical or evanescent? Finite or infinite? These are the paradoxes that make Dan Flavin’s work both mysterious and fascinating.
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In neon we trust!
When we find ourselves looking at neon tubes in a museum, they often belong to a work by Dan Flavin. Flavin used this material for the first time in 1963 for his work ‘Diagonal of May 25’. From then on, neon reappears in almost all of his works. Flavin is fascinated by industrially produced objects; but what interests him most is light and its capacity to redefine everything around it. Light makes the tube invisible, turning the solid object into a spiritual vision. Material or immaterial? Physical or evanescent? Finite or infinite? These are the paradoxes that make Dan Flavin’s work both mysterious and fascinating.
