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Viewing Dan Flavin: colored fluorescent light

The Wick Culture - Dan Flavin
untitled
1976
red, yellow, and blue fluorescent light
© 2023 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy David Zwirner

The Wick Culture - Dan Flavin
untitled
1976
red, yellow, and green fluorescent light
© 2023 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy David Zwirner

The Wick Culture - Dan Flavin
untitled (fondly, to

The Wick Culture - Dan Flavin
untitled
1976
red and daylight fluorescent light
© 2023 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy David Zwirner

The Wick Culture - Installation view, Dan Flavin: colored fluorescent light, David Zwirner, London, 12 January – 18 February, 2023. Copyright the artist. Photo: Anna Arca. Courtesy David Zwirner

Above Installation view, Dan Flavin: colored fluorescent light, David Zwirner, London, 12 January – 18 February, 2023. Copyright the artist. Photo: Anna Arca. Courtesy David Zwirner

Dan Flavin: colored fluorescent light
David Zwirner Grafton Street, London

12 January — 18 February 2023
www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2023/dan-flavin

Landing at David Zwirner this month is the gallery’s first presentation of Dan Flavin’s work in London. Born in New York in 1933, the American artist made his name creating illuminated light installations (or ‘situations’ as he preferred to call them) that offer a rigorous formal and conceptual investigation of space and light.

A pioneer of Minimalism, Flavin embraced the temporary nature of his work, often replacing parts which had shattered or blown as necessary. He enjoyed his first solo gallery show in 1961 and his first major museum exhibition in 1969. In 2004 a major retrospective of his work opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

Presented across two floors, this show recreates the artist’s momentous coloured fluorescent light exhibitions, which took place at Leo Castelli Gallery and Galerie Heiner Friedrich in New York and Cologne in 1976. Expect works that range in scale and colour from individual wall-mounted and T-shaped compositions to large-scale works which prompt the viewer to alter their course in the gallery. You’ll also see each of the nine colours that comprised his visual vocabulary during these years.

Shown together, they reveal the artist’s innovative use of immersive colour and serial progressions in response to architectural space. Get thee to Grafton street fast.

Viewing LuYang: LuYang NetiNeti

The Wick Culture - Luyang show at the Zabludowicz collection, London

Picture copyright David Bebber

Above Luyang show at the Zabludowicz collection, London Picture copyright David Bebber

LuYang: LuYang NetiNeti
Zabludowicz Collection, London

22 September 2022 — 12 March 2023
www.zabludowiczcollection.com

Immerse yourself in the multi-sensory world of Chinese artist LuYang at London’s Zabludowicz Collection. Their critically acclaimed solo show, which has been extended until 12 March due to popular demand, features a new video commissioned by the Zabludowicz Collection as well as a film centring on the artist’s avatar Doku and an interactive retro-futuristic arcade space in which visitors can explore LuYang’s investigations into the human body and mind through reimagined games such as Space Invaders.

Inspired by the cultures of anime, video games and sci-fi, LuYang combines Buddhist philosophy with aspects of neuroscience and digital technology to explore complex themes such as life, death, religion and the physical. His works are at once arresting and perplexing, raising questions around human existence, identity and purpose.

LuYang’s practice doesn’t shy away from meaty topics — or from destabilising established binaries like good and bad, life and death. It’s no surprise then that this is a visually challenging show that will keep the cogs turning long after you’ve left the building.

Viewing The Lost Rhino: An Art Installation with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

The Wick Culture - Installation view of The Substitute in 'Apocalypse -End Without End' at Natural History Museum, Bern, 2022. Photograph: Nelly Rodriguez.Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Video still from The Substitute, 2019, paired video installation (projections), 6 min 18 secs. © Alexandra Daisy

Above Installation view of The Substitute in ‘Apocalypse -End Without End’ at Natural History Museum, Bern, 2022. Photograph: Nelly Rodriguez.Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Video still from The Substitute, 2019, paired video installation (projections), 6 min 18 secs. © Alexandra Daisy

The Wick Culture - Taxidermy southern white rhino © The Trustees of The Natural History Museum, London,2022. All Rights Reserved.

The Wick Culture - The Rhinoceros', Albrecht Durer, Germany, c.1515 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Above The Rhinoceros’, Albrecht Durer, Germany, c.1515 © The Trustees of the British Museum

The Wick Culture - Cardiac cells made in the lab from preserved cells of Angalifu, the last male northern white rhino in the United States who died in 2015 © San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Above Cardiac cells made in the lab from preserved cells of Angalifu, the last male northern white rhino in the United States who died in 2015 © San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

The Wick Culture - Exhibition The Lost Rhino 3 © Trustees of the Natural History Museum London

Above Cardiac cells made in the lab from preserved cells of Angalifu, the last male northern white rhino in the United States who died in 2015 © San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

The Lost Rhino: An Art Installation with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Natural History Museum, London

Until 19 March 2023
www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/the-lost-rhino

When Sudan, the last surviving northern white male rhino, died in 2018, the extinction of the subspecies seemed certain. While two of his female relatives, Najin and Fatun, still survive, neither can carry a pregnancy to term.

But there is hope for the northern whites yet. Scientists who collected semen and eggs from the last living members of the subspecies hope to implant embryos into a female southern white rhino as part of a repopulation programme. If the project is successful, it will change the fate of endangered species around the world. But the plan has raised challenging questions around the ethics of de-extinction.

All of this and more is explored in The Lost Rhino, a free art installation conceived by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg that explores extinction, conservation and advanced new reproductive and genetic technologies at the Natural History Museum. You’ll come face to face with a digitally recreated, life-size northern white rhino, prompting you to question the paradox of our preoccupation with creating new life forms, while neglecting existing ones. This is art at its most urgent. Go before it’s too late!