DAN FLAVIN, INSTALATION MINIMALIST

DAN FLAVIN, INSTALLATION MINIMALIST


Dan Flavin was born in New York City in 1933, and died on November 29, 1996. Flavin studied art history at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Starting in 1963 he exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1983 Dia Center for the Arts opened the Dan Flavin Institute in Bridgehampton, New York. And in 1992 Flavin created a monumental installation for the reopening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Flavin didn’t always plan on becoming an artist. In fact his father wanted him to become a priest, and he actually attended a seminary in Brooklyn, New York from 1947 to 1952.
Dan Flavin is one of the major representatives of minimalism, which is an artistic style that emerged in the sixties and was defined by Michael Craig-Martin in 1989. In minimalism, perception alone took the place of three possibilities for understanding art; no representation, no metaphysics, and no metaphor. For Flavin it all star...