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Gladstone Gallery Brussels: Sol LeWitt - 11 Sept 2010 to 21 Oct 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Sol LeWitt
Installation view, Gladstone Gallery Brussels, 2010 |
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Sol LeWitt Rue du Grand Cerf 12 Grote Hertstraat 1000 Brussels September 11 through October 21, 2010 Opening September 10, 6-9pm Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition focused on a single wall drawing by Sol LeWitt. Long established as one of the leading figures in the Conceptual Art movement of the 1960s and 70s, LeWitt continually offered new ways of expanding the possibilities of the artist's role within the circulating channels of artistic creation, production and distribution. Through his vast body of works on paper, structures, and wall drawings, LeWitt makes evident the critical importance of methodology as a way of systematically delimiting the field of artistic invention as well as conflating the expressive function of form, content, surface and support into a rationalist ideal. Conceived in 1995, Wall Drawing #792: Black rectangles and squares underscores LeWitt's early interest in the intersections between art and architecture, which he distinguished and admired as a practice structured by predetermination, empirical logic, and collaboration. Motivated by this model, LeWitt developed a framework for identifying the artist as primarily that of a thinker bound to the processes of conceptualization rather than execution. Rejecting the ideological imperatives of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, LeWitt and his fellow allies established a counter polemic constituted by attitudes towards issues of non-hierarchy, repetition, and serialism, which centered around the motif of the grid. It was in 1968 that LeWitt completed his first wall drawing in New York, marking a seminal moment in his shifting views over the problematics of the formal support that ultimately lead him to bypass the object and to work directly on the wall itself, stating: "It seems more natural to work directly on the walls than to make a construction, to work on that, and then put the construction on the wall." Spanning the entire three story gallery, this exhibition consists of varying combinations of repeating black rectangles, creating an irregular grid-like pattern that is representative of LeWitt's use of the elemental shapes and geometries found in the abstractions of the Bauhaus and Russian Constructivism which he had studied. While it is aesthetically uniform, the differing scale, design, and dimensions of the gallery�s walls necessitate that each composition consider the particular architectural conditions of the site. Through his elegant charting of the axiomatics of the surface space, LeWitt invites us to reflect upon the phenomenological effects of our unfolding experience, marking his continual insistence upon capturing the presence of the human mind. Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) has been the subject of numerous major retrospectives at museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Gallery, London; the Kunsthalle Bern, and a long term installation at Mass MoCA, Massachusetts, among other international venues. His work remains in the collections of countless prominent art institutions, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Centre National d�Art Moderne Georges Pompidou. For further information please contact Gael Diercxsens +32 2 513 35 31 or [email protected] Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10am-6pm, Saturday, 12-6pm 515 West 24th Street Cecilia Edefalk September 17 through October 23 Gallery Hours: Tuesday � Saturday, 10am-6pm |
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