Flavin
Dan Flavin is an artist who used to do installations using fluorescent lights. He’s dead now, but possibly not because of the tubes. Fortunately for london-based electricians, there is a big retrospective about him in the Hayward Gallery at the moment. When you go in it’s like you’re a fly about to be electrocuted by one of those zapper things they have in cake shops. Also, the green ones make you and your mates look like the corpses.
If you don’t like the low hum that fluorescent tubes make, you wouldn’t like this exhibition. It’s also capable of giving you a green tan if you remain in there for too long. A further bad point is that most the gallery staff have been turned into violent zombies because of the brain-mangling intensity of the light; I found quite a few stray attendants victimising the skateboarders in that concrete hell-pit area underneath the gallery.
This is a good exhibition, anyway. I spoke to one of the attendants and told her that they ought to do a show of the Flavins in the dark, with all the gallery lights turned off. And then she said, the gallery lights are turned off.
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posted by Chairman Peyote @ 8:33 AM
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OK, regardless of his overwhelming sense of duty to veracity the Chairman is totally lying about the zombified gallery staff attacking the skateboarders. They were swarming the Fire Station. The streets ran red with yuppie merlot.
Flaaaaaaaaavvvvvvvvinnnnnnnn
Even his name sussurates with that ubiquitous headache inducing hum of the flourscent tubes.
More art reviews please.
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