Monument To V. Faviin's The Great Experiment By Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin uses fluorescent lights to create an ephemeral realm of lights for someone to exist in that have a personal critical element within them. This personal critical element comes in epistolary form that resembles Flavin’s light works. In Flavins piece Monument to V. Tatlin his light sculpture resembles critical epistolary about Tatlins work for the viewer to read.
Dan Flavin has been influenced by Tatlins works since the begins of his work with fluorescent tubes. Having read The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863-1922 Flavin created his series dedicated to Vladimir Tatlin. This series consists of cool white lights in various sizes and arrangements. This mutability of the series with its key elements has made it durable enough to last
Letters have certain norms to their structure. People can stray from some of them to better express themselves. With that in mind Flavin has taken advantage of him with his white lights in all different lengths and formations. In letters you could be very formal or personal. How Flavin places his lights on the wall work the same way. When they are vertical they are more formal as to when the are diagonal they are personal. It stays personal and stuck to a certain format as with the fact that the lights Flavin uses are readymade.
All Flavin’s ‘monument’ to V. Tatlin are a commodity meaning that they are already a social device between humans. Taking advantage of that Flavin is able to write a critical letter about Tatlin and his work through his art. The chose of a letter over an academic critic would go with Flavins desire to never be an art critic. Using the letter format with his art Flavin is able to be critical without the formal restraints of academia. This would be why he would dedicate the work to Tatlin. The viewer now knows the subject of the letter is Tatlin and his Third Monument to the Reich from the
Making the letter on Tatlin’s work seem to mean more with both being concerned with how architecture is being used. Flavin uses space in that his art is three-dimensional, can be placed any which way you want, and the light distorts how the architecture of the room looks. With writing it is spatial in how it is written. Placement of words on a page affects how it is perceived. It can make it formal or personal. Or it can change the flow of reading or emotional effect it has. How Flavin uses his lights in his monument to V. Tatlin he uses different formats for his lights but they all have the same