Monday 2 January 2012

Dan Flavin - my love of bright colours once again

One of Flavin's most famous and last works was the lightning for a glass enclose arcade at the Rhine-Elbe Science Park in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The arcade was designed by Uwe Kiessler; it stretches 300 mertres and connects nine buildings. A photo of this is shown to the right.File:Wissenschaftspark 02.jpg


Dan Flavin
Born 1st April 1933 in New York
Died 29th November 1996 in New York
He was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.

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