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5 quotes by Dan Flavin

Site-specific installation by Dan Flavin, 1996, Menil Collection Interior of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa. Milan, Italy. Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933, Jamaica, New York – November 29, 1996, Riverhead, New York) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

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One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

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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;... →

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My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a... →

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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... →

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