Dan Flavin's Light Works Illuminate at LACMA

LOS ANGELES, May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to minimalist artist Dan Flavin's full career. Regarded as one of the most innovative artists of his generation, Flavin is best known for creating art almost entirely of commercially-available fluorescent light tubes. Co-curated by Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, and Tiffany Bell, Director of the Dan Flavin catalogue raisonne, the exhibition features more than forty of Flavin's seminal fluorescent light works; also presented is a special reconstruction of the corridors made for the E.F. Hauserman Co. showroom, formerly located at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. Dan Flavin: A Retrospective opens at LACMA on May 13, 2007 and remains on view through August 12, 2007 -- it will be the final destination of a multi-venue tour.

Organized by Dia Art Foundation in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Dan Flavin: A Retrospective showcases the chronological development of Flavin's work over the course of thirty years, demonstrating the various means through which he experimented with light, color, seriality, and the coordinates of interior space. The exhibition includes the full range of his work, many of which are specifically dedicated to modernist predecessors and contemporary artists who inspired him, while other dedications reveal Flavin's commitment to the politics of his time.

In Los Angeles, the exhibition will include a major reconstruction of three spectacular corridors Flavin made for the E.F. Hauserman Co. showroom -- presented together for the first time since they were dismantled in 1984. Architects and designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli collaborated with Flavin to create a space for the showroom that evoked a dynamic architectural experience. For two of the corridors, Flavin places fluorescent lights at mid-point to bar the viewer from passing through them. The central corridor is open from one end to the other, and completely blue with angled light fixtures on the walls and ceiling.

General Information: LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, 90036.