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Lot Essay
"It makes an intelligible idea of the whole wall."
Referring to Dan Flavin's white tubes of neon, fellow minimalist Donald Judd's statement came as a response to a single diagonal neon light on a bare wall which hung at an exhibition of Flavin's in 1964. Executed the same year, Alternate Diagonals of March 2, 1964 (to Don Judd) returns Judd's compliment and pays tribute to Flavin's contemporary. Clearly the works of these two artists have much in common; the use of standardized materials and geometry, the focus on light as a material and space within an environment, as well as the practice of serial thinking.
The simplicity and elegance the aura of the white light casts, emphasizes both the form and the context in which the viewer experiences Alternative Diagonals of March 2, 1964 (to Don Judd). The work is one of the earliest fluorescent works by Flavin and one of the earliest multiple tube sculptures following Diagonal of May 25 (for Constantin Brancusi), 1963. Edition number two of three of this same series is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. Editions of the daylight and cool white versions are in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. One version of the red and yellow version may be found at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Referring to Dan Flavin's white tubes of neon, fellow minimalist Donald Judd's statement came as a response to a single diagonal neon light on a bare wall which hung at an exhibition of Flavin's in 1964. Executed the same year, Alternate Diagonals of March 2, 1964 (to Don Judd) returns Judd's compliment and pays tribute to Flavin's contemporary. Clearly the works of these two artists have much in common; the use of standardized materials and geometry, the focus on light as a material and space within an environment, as well as the practice of serial thinking.
The simplicity and elegance the aura of the white light casts, emphasizes both the form and the context in which the viewer experiences Alternative Diagonals of March 2, 1964 (to Don Judd). The work is one of the earliest fluorescent works by Flavin and one of the earliest multiple tube sculptures following Diagonal of May 25 (for Constantin Brancusi), 1963. Edition number two of three of this same series is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. Editions of the daylight and cool white versions are in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. One version of the red and yellow version may be found at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.