Monument to Vladimir Tatlin

Nevada Museum of Art
160 West Liberty Street
Reno

Dan Flavin:
Monument to Vladimir Tatlin
through April 26, 2009

"Take a nighttime drive by the Museum and peer into the main lobby to see legendary Minimalist artist Dan Flavin’s fluorescent light sculpture Monument to Vladimir Tatlin. For over 30 years, Flavin created dynamic sculptures made from fluorescent tubing in standard sizes, shapes, and colors. Monument to Vladimir Tatlin was named in honor of the grand tower that was envisioned by Russian artist and architect Vladimir Tatlin in 1917, but never built. Flavin’s sculptures are widely celebrated for the way that they interact with various architectural spaces and explore the physics of light. The sculpture is illuminated daily from 10 am to 10 pm."

[Text and Flavin image from the Nevada Museum of Art Web site. Caption: "Dan Flavin, Monument to Vladimir Tatlin, 1969, fluorescent tubing. Courtesy of Private Collection, San Francisco." Graphic of Tatlin monument from Wikipedia. Caption: "Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin. Model of the Monument to the Third International." Click on images to enlarge.]