Dan Flavin at the "Musée d'Art Moderne" of Paris : Don't try to understand, just have good feelings...

It is all what I like...

The Museum of Modern Art of Paris (France) proposes since June 6th a review of the work of Dan Flavin. I went there only today, at this beginning of September.

Dan Flavin is a member of the American Minimal Art of the 60' and 70'.He only use the light as basic material. Neons of various dimensions and various tones, the light of which conjugates, bounces on the white walls, modifies the perception of tthe space.

If some works are relatively difficult to encircle, the exhibition in general possesses a strong poetic power. To convince oneself of its interest, it is enough to cross the glance amazed by the children who discover that having been bathed in a completely green space, the corridor that they had previously seen "white" is as by magic become "pink".

The light is everywhere, sometimes brilliant, sometimes completely subtle, dicreet.
Then it is enough to follow the atmosphere, as in the works of Olafur Eliason, without trying absolutely to understand. To feel, just to feel. Because the contemporary art, as opposed to what one too often reads, is - in any case for me - just to let itself go, to have the open mind, to dream, but not too much to intellectualize.

Dan Flavin, une rétrospective
June 9th > October 8th 2006
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris