Dan Flavin
July 19th, 2005Brancusi and Serra in Dialogue has been extended until September 24th, but this weekend after seeing the Dan Flavin retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, I am looking forward even more to October and the opening of our next exhibition Minimalism and Beyond. Flavin is one of the many artists that will be on view and after seeing the retrospective, I’ve already decided he’s my favorite. We’re in the process now of doing research for the Minimalism catalogue and I’m learning a lot about it as we go (so my “favorite” will probably change every day…). So I think I’ll post occasional Fun Facts o’ the Day for your reading pleasure.
Today’s Fun Fact o’ the Day: I never knew that Flavin dedicated his first art work that used all florescent light to Brancusi. He felt so intensely about it, that he called it his “diagonal of personal ecstasy”. (I read this in the retrospective’s handout) I don’t know if I’ve ever worked on something I could call that. “my press release of personal ecstasy” doesn’t really sound the same…
