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I was particularly interested in researching more about Dan Falvin, as I have seen his work at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
Dan Flavin's Flavin’s installation at ART UNLIMITED called Untitled to Barry, Mike, Chuck and Leonardo (1972-1975), used Yellow and Pink Fluorescent light in a corridor accessible to viewers from either side. In 1972 Dan Flavin first began developing his barred corridors as specially constructed hallways bisected by a barrier of lights. The corridors allowed the artist to extend his experiment by intermingling a contrasting background and foreground colors in a contained environment. Ultimately this square rectangular configuration of lights also allowed Flavin to refer to the picture plane of painting and the idea of perspective. Untitled (to Barry, Mike, Chuck and Leonard) from 1972 - 1975, is an eight-by-eight foot installation of paired pink and yellow light fixtures installed back to back. This important and unique work is one of only five made by Flavin during his lifetime.
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Although Flavin passed away in 1996, his fame and notoriety as a contemporary American minimalist is widely recognized today. For more than three decades, Flavin vigorously pursued the artistic possibilities of fluorescent light. The artist radically limited his materials to commercially available fluorescent tubing in standard sizes, shapes, and colors, extracting banal hardware from its utilitarian context and inserting it into the world of high art. The resulting body of work at once possesses a straightforward simplicity and a deep sophistication. Many of Flavin's Flavin’s works have been sold at auction. In 2004, Flavin's work Untitled ("monument" for V. Tatlin)' (1964--1965) was sold for $735,500 at Christie'sChristie’s, New York.
Dan Flavin's is represented in New York by David Zwirner as agent Zwirner has managed Flavin's Flavin’s entire estate since 2010.
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