Evanescent

(Dia: Beacon) Dan Flavin after 1963 composed his work entirely of light, in the form of commercially available fluorescent tubes. He would arrange the varying colors and shapes in autonomous configurations, before making the work correlate to architecture (above). The ‘monumental barriers’ physically block a passageway or segment of space with light. These architectural interventions take repetition as the point of departure. The fluorescent-green units are placed side by side at two-foot intervals until the space is clearly blocked. Similar to contemporaries such as Carl Andre and Donald Judd; there was emphasis on on forms that must be experienced in real time and space.