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Dan Flavin. “monument” to V. Tatlin XI, 1964; “monument” to V. Tatlin, 1966; “monument” to V. Tatlin, 1966—69; and untitled, 1970. © Estate of Dan Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson. |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Dan Flavin: fluorescent light etc. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada for the Queen's Printer, 1969. Texts by Mel Bochner, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Brydon Smith.
"monuments" for V. Tatlin from Dan Flavin, 1964–1982. Chicago: Donald Young Gallery in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1989. Text by Dan Flavin.
Dan Flavin. Buenos Aires: Fundación Proa, 1998. Texts by Dan Flavin, Michael Govan, and Julio Sánchez.
Cattedrali d'Arte: Dan Flavin per Santa Maria in Chiesa Rossa. Ed. Germano Celant. Milan: Fondazione Prada, 1998. Texts by Carlo Bertelli, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Germano Celant, Hubert Damish, Renato Diez, Michael Govan, Vittorio Gregotti, Fulvio Irace, Pierluigi Lia, Mario Perniola, Pier Paolo Rinaldi, and
Gianni Vattimo.
Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light. Ed. J. Fiona Ragheb. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1999. Texts by Tiffany Bell, Frances Colpitt, Jonathan Crary, Dan Flavin, Michael Govan, Joseph Kosuth, Michael Newman, J. Fiona Ragheb, and Brydon E. Smith.
Dan Flavin. London: Serpentine Gallery, 2001. Text by Michael Govan.
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| Biography |
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Dan Flavin was born in 1933 in New York City, where he later studied art history at the New School for Social Research (1956) and Columbia University (1957–59). His first solo show was at the Judson Gallery, New York, in 1961. Flavin made his first work with electric light that same year, and he began using commercial fluorescent bulbs in 1963. Major exhibitions of Flavin's work include those at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1967), the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1969), and the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (1989). In 1983, Dia opened the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, New York, a permanent exhibition designed by the artist in a converted firehouse and open to the public each summer. In 1992 Flavin created a monumental installation for the reopening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He died in 1996, leaving designs for a light installation for Milan's Chiesa Rossa that was realized posthumously with Dia's support. Flavin's last completed work, untitled (1996) occupies the stairwell at Dia's exhibition space in Chelsea.
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