Dan Flavin - Early Work and Icons

lone tube to Brancusi’s famous "endless column," in which he stacked repeating wedge-shaped metal forms. As Flavin explained, "Both structures had a uniform elementary visual nature, but they were intended to exceed their obvious visible limitations of length and their apparent lack of complication."

Another seminal early work is the nominal three (to William of Ockham), in which the artist positioned six, eight-foot daylight fluorescent tubes vertically in a one-two-three progression spaced evenly across a gallery wall. The radical simplicity of his medium and the presentation of the fluorescent tubes in a basic progression encouraged (continue)

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