Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Opens Dan Flavin Fluorescent Light Exhibition on November 11 in Spain, Running Through April 4, 2027
BILBAO, Spain — The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened Dan Flavin: Some Light on November 11, an exhibition focusing on the American artist's pioneering use of commercially available fluorescent tubes. It runs through April 4, 2027.
According to the museum and exhibition coverage, the show takes its cue from Flavin's 1964 solo exhibition at the Kaymar Gallery in New York, his first presentation composed entirely of fluorescent light works, following his 1963 decision to mount a single gold fluorescent tube diagonally on a wall. Presented in the museum's Frank Gehry-designed galleries, the exhibition highlights how Flavin conceived his arrangements as architectural situations, deploying ready-made fixtures in controlled palettes of red, blue, green, pink, yellow, ultraviolet and white.
The exhibition draws on the Guggenheim's extensive holdings of Flavin's work from the Panza Collection, supplemented by key loans from the Dia Art Foundation in New York. Flavin's 1966 work greens crossing greens (to Piet Mondrian who lacked green) is among the works illustrated for the show.
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