Jan Van Munster - Licht Light

This luminous monograph is the first retrospective on Dutch minimalist light artist Jan van Munster, whose works recall the best of Dan Flavin s. Though he has shown widely throughout Europe and Japan, he has remained little known to American audiences. This extraordinarily beautiful book follows van Munster's work from his early discovery of American minimalism, specifically the California Light Space Movement in 1969. The development of his work, frequently constructed in neon, began with pieces in galleries and museums and has blossomed through its engagement with the streets and public spaces of cities, where he has erected large scale pillars of light and brightly glowing installations.