{"id":23074,"date":"2015-07-21T15:56:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=23074"},"modified":"2015-07-21T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T13:56:17","slug":"sol-lewitts-wall-drawings-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/sol-lewitts-wall-drawings-live-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Sol LeWitt\u2019s Wall Drawings Live Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23100\" alt=\"Wall Drawing 280, 15cm grid, red, blue and white crayon, black pencil grid, yellow wall. First drawn by: Diane Bertolo, Linda Brooks, Charles Clough, Alan Hayes, Gary Judkins, Pierce Kamke, Robert Longo, Kevin Noble, Joseph Panone, Robert Reslawsky, Cindy Sherman, Michael Zwack. First installation: Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, 1976, courtesy The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, San Francisco, Calafornia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/61.jpg\" width=\"716\" height=\"477\" \/> Wall Drawing 280, 15cm grid, red, blue and white crayon, black pencil grid, yellow wall. First drawn by: Diane Bertolo, Linda Brooks, Charles Clough, Alan Hayes, Gary Judkins, Pierce Kamke, Robert Longo, Kevin Noble, Joseph Panone, Robert Reslawsky, Cindy Sherman, Michael Zwack, first installation: Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, 1976, courtesy The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, San Francisco, California<\/p>\n<p>It took nineteen people six weeks to create seventeen drawings by Sol LeWitt onto the Fundacion Botin, and yet at the end of the exhibition, they will simply be painted over. This most recent installation of LeWitt\u2019s wall drawings, in Santander, Spain, represents one of the country\u2019s most significant exhibitions of the conceptual artist. \u00a0\u201cSol LeWitt: 17 Wall Drawings\u201d is devoted to the artist\u2019s driving principle of placing the idea of the work at the centre of its execution: in this case, asking others to carry out the drawing according to his instructions. So, even though LeWitt passed away in 2007, the artworks are still properly by Sol LeWitt, applied directly to the walls by a team of artists who carry out the instructions. These range from exacting (specifying, for example, the size of the wall) to more vague descriptions which allow the artists to add their own interpretation to the work.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in \u201c50 Randomly Placed Points All Connected by Straight Lines\u201d, LeWitt\u2019s instructions entail the element of randomness. The artist trusts in the person executing the work, allowing them to choose what \u201crandom\u201d means to them. In fact, the work has been carried out multiple times and not only has been different in impact each time, but even the process the draughtsperson has used to simulate the randomness has differed on each iteration \u2013 some have chosen to flip a coin, others to blindfold themselves and place a marker on the wall, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the works don\u2019t require a particular size of wall space, and often continue beyond the boundaries of traditional hanging space. For example, \u201cWall Drawing 51, All architectural points connected by straight lines\u201d has been drawn onto the stairwell of the exhibition hall, in blue architectural snaplines. Just as with the randomly placed points, the idea is part of an attempt to address the unknown and define it, creating an artwork that can work in any opportunity for space. The crisscrossing blue lines join at hubs where the banister meets the wall, making these mundane elements of the room a crucial part of how the work looks formally. This choice of medium, as well as the space occupied, nods to LeWitt\u2019s intention to work within the constraints of the architecture \u2013 a throwback to his formative years working in the architecture offices of I. M. Pei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23102\" alt=\"Wall Drawing 614, Rectangles formed by 8 cm wide India ink bands, meeting at right angles, India ink . First drawn by: David Higginbotham, Liam Longman, Philip Riley, Jim Rogers, Elizabeth Sacre First installation: Lisson Gallery, London, 1989 Yale University Art Gallery, Newhaven, CT. Gift of the artist \" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/9.jpg\" width=\"716\" height=\"477\" \/> Wall Drawing 614, rectangles formed by 8 cm wide India ink bands, meeting at right angles, India ink, first drawn by: David Higginbotham, Liam Longman, Philip Riley, Jim Rogers, Elizabeth Sacre, first installation: Lisson Gallery, London, 1989 Yale University Art Gallery, Newhaven, Connecticut, gift of the artist<\/p>\n<p>In a similar use of space, the entrance features one of the crucial elements of LeWitt\u2019s work \u2013 his \u201ccoat of arms\u201d for his visual vocabulary. Painted in ultra-shiny white acrylic on a white wall, it might be difficult to see. But the horizontal, vertical and two diagonal lines are the starting point for much of LeWitt\u2019s other works, often in combination with the standard tones of yellow, red, blue and grey that he combines them with. It is this visual vocabulary that is shown in \u201cWall Drawing 7A\u201d, 2015, which is being exhibited for the first time at the Fundacion Botin (hence the contemporary dating of the work). Its side-by-side shaded squares may look pastels from afar but, on closer inspection, present combinations of grey, red, blue and yellow, in a logical combination of the horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines in series.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the reasons that LeWitt\u2019s work remains so contemporary: its form is completely dependent on the space, the moment and the person carrying it out according to the instructions. The draughtsperson, in particular, carries the knowledge and understanding of the visual forms of the moment with them, making LeWitt\u2019s work contemporary art on every iteration.<\/p>\n<p>As John Hogan, director of installations and archivist of Sol LeWitt\u2019s wall drawings at Yale University Art Gallery, explains at the exhibition\u2019s press conference: \u201cThis is how it lives.\u201d After all it\u2019s his job to ensure that LeWitt\u2019s legacy continues, not just for his lifetime, but for perpetuity. For while this collection of wall drawings is an impressive collection of works, in their formal character, their significance resides in their nature as a temporary phenomenon. This is conceptualism at its most fundamental: the idea lives forever.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sol LeWitt: 17 Wall Drawings. 1970-2015&#8221; is on show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundacionbotin.org\/botin-foundation-exhibition\/exhibition-sol-lewitt-17-wall-drawings-1970-2015.html?lan=en\">Fundacion Botin<\/a>, Santander, Spain until 10 January 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text von <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/author\/josie-thaddeus-johns\/\">Josie Thaddeus-Johns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More: The new grotesque cult from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2015\/07\/tianzhuo-chen-at-palais-de-tokyo\/\">Tianzhuo Chen<\/a> at Palais de Tokyo <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mehr: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2015\/07\/interview-with-iain-ball\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iain Ball<\/a> Discusses his Show \u201cRare Earth Elements\u201d at Future Gallery<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Drawing 280, 15cm grid, red, blue and white crayon, black pencil grid, yellow wall. 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