An extra conceptual
artist that really lightens up through his art is present for us today.
Among
Flavin’s work, there is an extensive use of electric light as an artistic
expression, especially with mass industrially produced colored neon tubes or as
we call them today fluorescent lights. It is hard determined to just simplify
the symbolic significance of his work, but it is in of a relation to space, so
it is in relation very close to minimalism.
This kind of
contemporary art reflects many different aspects for me. There are answers for
this instillation which I will include, but also I will talk about how I see
this art.
As seen in the title,
his work was dedicated to a special somebody, and that special somebody is
avant garde artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin.
With some research, I found
that Mr. Tatlin has constructed a tower, a tower that was supposed to be the communist
head quarter around the 1920s. The tower was never constructed due to fact that
it was not buildable project. SOURCE 3 is a very interesting link describing
the depiction made for the propaganda of communism.
The Monument to the Third International (1919) MODEL
Furthermore, it was in
to nullify the Eiffel tower in Paris by height, shape, modernity, structure,
and anything that belongs.
Back to the work, our
artist Flavin admired Tatlin’s work and wanted to empower it through his own as
a memoir for the Tatlin. It is expressed with technology (lights) and it is
like he is trying to move through the spectra of time to show a relative “robotic”
view of it.
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