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DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996) RED AND GREEN ALTERNATIVES (TO SONJA) red and green fluorescent lights W: ...

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DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996) RED AND GREEN ALTERNATIVES (TO SONJA) red and green fluorescent lights W: ...
DAN FLAVIN
(1933-1996)
RED AND GREEN ALTERNATIVES
(TO SONJA)
red and green fluorescent lights
W: 48 in. (121.9 cm)
executed in 1964
the present lot was produced under the artist's supervision in 1988
this work is from an edition of five and is accompanied by a
certificate of authenticity
signed by the artist <p>PROVENANCE
Gerold S. Elliott, CHICAGO
Donald Young Gallery, CHICAGO
In time, I came to these conclusions about what I had found in fluorescent light, and about what might be done with it plastically: Now the entire interior special container and its parts - wall, floor, and ceiling - could support this strip of light but would not restrict its act of light except to enfold it... Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition. For example, if you press an eight-foot fluorescent lamp into the vertical climb of a corner, you can destroy that corner by glare and doubled shadow. A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance. ...What has art been for me? In the past, I have known it as a sequence of implicit decisions to combine traditions of painting and sculpture in architecture with acts of electric light defining space...
Dan Flavin, "...in daylight or cool white': an autobiographical sketch," ARTFORUM, no. 4 (December 1965), p. 42
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