imgp1089.jpgAttendees of the Burda DLD conference in Munich this year got a tour of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, specifically, the Dan Flavin Retrospective. Click here to see my DLD photo set. The curator of the Dan Flavin exhibition led the tour and explained to us how Flavin’s works evolved over time. A theme that surfaces again and again is how art is part of everyday life and how it is part of the viewer. It does not stand apart. That is why he used light. Light reflects and lands upon you. It does not stop at the boundaries of a frame, as a painting, drawing or photograph does. And it draws you in.

One of his light installations used to hang in a bar in New York City in the 1960s where Andy Warhol and his friends used to meet. Flavin did not see his art as sacred, as being only fit to hang in a museum. He plays with the way the wavelengths of light interact with our eyes. So if you look at a red light, then suddenly look at green or yellow light, your eyes have to adjust and the light that is really one color, looks like another.

Read the Wikipedia entry on Dan Flavin here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Flavin

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