DAN FLAVIN: DRAWINGS, DIAGRAMS AND PRINTS 1972-1975
DAN FLAVIN: INSTALLATIONS IN FLOURESCENT LIGHT 1972-1975
Dan Flavin, Dan Belloli and Emily Rauh [essays]
Dan Flavin, Dan Belloli and Emily Rauh [essays]: DAN FLAVIN: DRAWINGS, DIAGRAMS AND PRINTS 1972-1975 / DAN FLAVIN: INSTALLATIONS IN FLOURESCENT LIGHT 1972-1975. Fort Worth: The Fort Worth Art Museum, 1977. First edition. Oblong quarto. Thick printed wrappers. 99 pp. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Wrappers lightly worn, with a scraped area to the rear panel’s top edge. Former owners name inked out on title page. A very good or better copy.
10.75 x 8.5 softcover exhibition catalog that includes many reproductions of the artist's "light" sculpture many of which are in color, and of his sketches.
"As always Dan Flavin met the challenge of initiating works for a new space with dedication and has created an exhibition of exceptional quality. His sensitivity to the surrounding enviornment in the creation of his installations, and his important contribution to contemporary art-as well as my longterm relationship with him-were the crucial factors in my decision to approach him to do this exhibition. Flavin's emphasis on the interrelatedness of the exhibition, {he insisted, for example, that all installations be represented in the drawings} his continuing investigation and study of space, and his innate and unique understanding of his medium-its capacity for reticence as well as aggressiveness, calm as well as drama-ultimately resulted in an exhibition whose superb quality is a testament to the greatness of his art." -- Richard Koshalek.
The American minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933 - 1996) was famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially-available fluorescent light fixtures. He did also, sporadically throughout the mid-1970's, produce deft portrait studies. 'Still another type of drawing in this exhibition is the artist's observations of nature. Whether they are penned portraits of friends at the dinner table (Allen Jones, Rainer Speck, Guido Baumgartner, Claes Oldenburg, Donald Judd), or records of beach and ocean atmosphere and activity, they are quick and deft' (from catalog text). These small portrait drawings, with the sitter in profile are executed with thin strokes of the pen, with almost a calligraphic pattern of lines. This expressionistic quality of the drawings (two of which are reproduced on p. 10 of this catalog), was to be found again in Flavin's lithographs.