Dan Flavin: \It is what it is and it ain\t nothing else\
?Foreword by Jonathan Watkins. Texts by Dan Flavin and Jeffrey Weiss
This catalogue accompanies the Dan Flavin exhibition It is what it is and ain’t nothing else . Flavin was one of the most important post-war American artists. Taking his statement “It is what it is and it ain’t nothing else” as a departure point, Ikon’s exhibition demonstrates Flavin’s emphasis on the importance of the context of artistic experience capitalizing on the variety of interiors that Ikon Gallery has to offer.
The catalogue includes and essay by Jeffrey Weiss, Senior Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and installation photographs of the exhibition .
Publisher: Ikon Gallery
Artists: Dan Flavin
Contributors: Dan Flavin, Jonathan Watkins, Jeffrey Weiss
Designer: James Langdon
Printer: Emmerson Press, Kenilworth, United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Softcover
Dimensions: 9 x 11 1/2 in (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Pages: 40
Reproductions: 14 color
ISBN: 9781911155010
Retail: $15 | £10
Status: Available
Dan Flavin
From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold, fluorescent lamp that is installed on a diagonal on the wall—a work which marks the artist’s first use of fluorescent light alone, until his death in 1996, Dan Flavin (1933-1996) produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially-available fluorescent lamps to create installations, or “situations” as he preferred to call them, of light and color. Through the construction of light, Flavin was able to literally establish and redefine space.