{"id":7496,"date":"2020-11-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italics.art\/?post_type=tip&#038;p=7496"},"modified":"2020-11-30T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:05:17","slug":"santa-maria-annunciata-in-chiesa-rossa-dan-flavin","status":"publish","type":"tip","link":"https:\/\/italics.art\/en\/tip\/santa-maria-annunciata-in-chiesa-rossa-dan-flavin\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the early 1930s, in Milan, Giovanni Muzio, one of the most important names in the group of rationalist architects, built the Palazzo della Triennale. He was simultaneously working on a project for a parish church in the Navigli area, the basilica of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa. Both of these buildings are distinguished by exposed brick and a severe geometric formal language.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Flavin, Untitled, 1997, permanent installation in Santa Maria in Chiesa Rossa, Milan. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Fondazione Prada  \" class=\"wp-image-7490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Dan Flavin, <em>Untitled<\/em>, 1997, permanent installation in Santa Maria in Chiesa Rossa, Milan. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Fondazione Prada  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1996, the Reverend Giulio Greco invited the American artist Dan Flavin, one of Minimalism\u2019s leading protagonists, to create a site<em>&#8211;<\/em>specific work for his church\u2019s interior. After exchanging letters, the artist accepted the invitation and conceived what was to be his last work. In <g id=\"gid_1\"><em>Untitled<\/em><\/g>, the green, blue, pink, golden and ultraviolet light reverberates in the monumental austerity of the space designed by Muzio. The succession of colors that permeate the nave, transept and apse, evokes the natural progression of light at night, dawn and daytime.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A year after Flavin\u2019s death in November 1997, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fondazioneprada.org\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prada Foundation<\/a> completed the posthumous project for Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa, with the support of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dia Center for the Arts<\/a> in New York and the Dan Flavin Estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-6-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Flavin, Untitled, 1997, permanent installation in Santa Maria in Chiesa Rossa, Milan. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Fondazione Prada  \" class=\"wp-image-7493\" width=\"492\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-6-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-6-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-6-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-6-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/italics.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fondazione-Prada-Chiesa-Rossa-Foto-Roberto-Marossi-6-1024x1536.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><figcaption>Dan Flavin, <em>Untitled<\/em>, 1997, permanent installation in Santa Maria in Chiesa Rossa, Milan. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Fondazione Prada  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa is located on Via Neera 24 in Milan and is open every day from 4 to 7 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1930s, in Milan, Giovanni Muzio, one of the most important names in the group of rationalist architects, built the Palazzo della Triennale. He was simultaneously working on a project for a parish church in the Navigli area, the basilica of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa. 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