limitation for the rest of his career, producing endless Dan Flavin: cornered combinations of light, color, and space in serial and systematic compositions. While outwardly simple and direct, these arrangements produce visual effects fluorescent light of surprising subtlety. And while changes in lighting technology have caused problems for his work’s con- servators in recent years, Flavin himself embraced the temporary nature of his sculptures, and was happy to replace parts as needed. “As visual culture moves faster and further toward the instantaneous and the ephemeral,” observes Mana Contemporary’s Artistic Director, Eugene Lemay, “the value of observing art over the long term has been obscured. At Mana, art is framed not as an ephemeral experience, but instead as an enduring phenomenon, not only as a discrete presentation, but also in the context of immersive settings.” Dan Flavin: cornered fluorescent light is one such setting, and will be on display at Mana in conjunction with new and continuing projects by canonical artists John Chamberlain, Bernard Kirschenbaum, Arnulf Rainer, Fred Sandback, and Andy Warhol, and alongside Flat Out: Works on Paper 1960–2000, an exhibition curated by Ysabel Pinyol and Karline Moeller that explores the language of drawing as used by artists associated with Dan Flavin, untitled (to the “innovator” of Wheeling Peachblow), 1966–68 © Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Minimalism and Conceptualism in their founding years. Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Billy Jim Dan Flavin has had major solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Presented courtesy of the Estate of Dan Flavin Baden-Baden; St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri; and Opening: Sunday, October 14, 2018, 1–7PM Morgan Library and Museum, New York. Dan Flavin: Floor 1 A Retrospective toured to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Modern Art Museum of Fort JERSEY CITY, NJ, October 1, 2018—On October 14, Worth, Texas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Mana Contemporary is delighted to present Dan Hayward Gallery, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de Flavin: cornered fluorescent light, a large-scale la Ville de Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; installation of works by the Minimalist master that and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. His works are fills the space of one of Mana’s galleries with radiant held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; color. First shown at the Institute for the Arts at Rice Dia: Beacon, New York; Menil Collection, Houston; University in Houston, Texas, in 1972, the works and National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among appear courtesy of the Estate of Dan Flavin. many others. Dan Flavin died in Riverhead, New York, on November 29, 1996. Dan Flavin was born in 1933, in Jamaica, New York, and later studied at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine ABOUT MANA CONTEMPORARY Arts, New School for Social Research, and Columbia Founded in 2011, Mana Contemporary is dedicated University. His first solo exhibition was at the Judson to providing a platform for contemporary art and Gallery, New York, in 1961; he made his first work artists through exhibitions, studio programs, and with electric light that same year, and began using public programs. Mana’s community network began fluorescent tubes in 1963. The choice of material was in New Jersey and has since expanded to include motivated in part by a desire to break free from both Mana Chicago and Mana Miami. Mana Contemporary Abstract Expressionism and Pop art by seizing on the continues to create new partnership opportunities that anonymous and industrial nature of a familiar com- explore the intersection of contemporary art, design, mercial product. Flavin worked with this self-imposed new technologies, and music. For more information, visit manacontemporary.com. MEDIA CONTACT Alison Roberts [email protected] Mana Contemporary 888 Newark Ave. Jersey City, NJ 07306 FOLLOW US Instagram: @manacontemporary Twitter: @manacontemp Facebook: Mana Contemporary.