Sol Lewitt
artfag 0001 is an examination/interpretation of conceptualism founder and minimalist father Sol Lewitt.
Kevin Rogers mistook a dacops piece for a Sol Lewitt at house party a few weeks back which prompted dac operations to investigate who this artist was. To our surprise and sadness not only was Sol Lewitt a man who redefined art for the rest of its existence but he did indeed produce some pieces that starkly resemble the dacops ‘linejam’.
As an exercise in retrospective learning dacops will collect and post information on the prolific creator.
Drawings
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Over the course of his prolific, influential career, Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007) produced more than 1,200 wall drawings. This installation, which fills a single large gallery, features one of LeWitt’s celebrated examples from the Museum’s collection, Wall Drawing #260 (1975). The work’s subtitle serves to describe the installation: “on black walls, all two-part combinations of white arcs from corners and sides, and white straight, not-straight, and broken lines.” Although LeWitt’s wall drawings evoke the tradition of Italian fresco paintings, they have established a distinct tradition of their own, in which linear systems, determined by LeWitt in advance, are carried out by others, be they artists, trained assistants, or novice volunteers, based upon his instructions. LeWitt compared his role to that of a composer who creates a score that may be played by musicians for generations to come. The concept—or score—remains constant, but the wall drawing, like a musical performance, will vary slightly each time it is realized anew.
