Dan Flavin: Light, Color, and Space

MALBA presents Dan Flavin: Light, Color, and Space, an exhibition organized by the Dia Art Foundation and curated by Jessica Morgan and Min Sun Jeon. The exhibitions includes important early works, such as his pieces dedicated to the Russian Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin and to the death of war victims (originally exhibited in the landmark exhibition Primary Structures), both of which revisit the concept of monumentality, as well as the large-scale installation Untitled (To you, Heiner, with admiration and affection) (1973), conceived as a gesture toward Dia’s founder.

Flavin’s trajectory is deeply intertwined with that of the Dia Art Foundation, which holds the most significant collection of his work and maintains a permanent space dedicated to the artist in Bridgehampton, New York. Dia was founded in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, Heiner Friedrich, and Helen Winkler to support artists in realizing visionary projects that might otherwise remain impossible due to their scale or scope. To evoke the institution’s role in enabling such ambitions, they chose the name “Dia,” derived from the Greek word meaning “through.” Today, the foundation comprises nine permanent sites across the United States and Germany, in addition to three temporary exhibition spaces in New York State: Dia Chelsea in New York City, Dia Beacon in the Hudson Valley, and Dia Bridgehampton on Long Island.

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