Sol Lewitt Wall Drawings
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Sol lewitt wall drawings. A wall drawing retrospective comprises 105 of lewitt s large scale wall drawings spanning the artist s career from 1969 to 2007. These occupy nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that have been installed per lewitt s own specifications over three stories of a historic mill building situated at the heart of mass moca s campus. Drawing series ii 18 a b october 1968 artwork info artwork title wall drawing 1. This article considers sol lewitt s wall drawings as artworks poised on the cusp of the post medium condition of installation art.
Solomon sol lewitt september 9 1928 april 8 2007 was an american artist linked to various movements including conceptual art and minimalism. Lewitt stated that ideas not physical creations are the substance of art. Sol lewitt wall drawing 1. He developed instructions for wall drawings that are still being created to this day.
Sol lewitt s wall drawings 1 350 wall drawings in four decades. 121 92 cm x 121 92 cm. Lewitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and structures a term he preferred instead of sculptures but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing printmaking photography painting installation and. While the wall drawings are site specific they eschew the spectacular immersive effects of subsequent multi media installation art.
Over the course of his prolific and influential career sol lewitt 1928 2007 produced approximately 1 350 wall drawings comprising approximately 3 500 installations at more than 1 200 venues.