Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawing 386
India ink washes. Environmental dimensions.
First drawn by: Julie Jarvis, Renee Milliken, Anthony Sansotta. First installation: Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, Texas. January 1983. Courtesy of the Estate of Sol Le Witt. Photo credit: Phogo by Alessandro Zambianchi. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan/Londres.
Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawing 614
India ink. First drawn by : David Higginbotham, Liam Longman, Philip Riley, Jim Rogers, Elizabeth Sacre. First installation: Lisson Gallery, London. July 1989. Yale University Art Gallery / Gift of the artist.
Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawings. 1970-2015. Botín Foundation The exhibition space of the Botín Foundation in Santander hosts the exhibition ‘Sol LeWitt. 17 Wall Drawings. 1970-2015’ from the 18th of July to the 10th of January 2016.]]>
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The exhibition -curated by John Hogan, Director of Installations and archivist of Wall Drawings at the Yale University Art Gallery who, since 1982, worked as a drawer for Sol LeWitt; and by Benjamin Weil, Artistic Director of the Botín Centre- will offer visitors a unique view of the stylistic and conceptual development of wall drawing in the artist’s oeuvre.
Sixteen of the Wall Drawings from the selection on display in the exhibition, executed between 1970 y 2015, have never been shown before in Spain -only the seventeenth drawing was previously shown in Spain in 1989- and most of them have never been shown again since they were first made more than twenty years ago. In addition, Wall Drawing 7A will be executed for the first time in the Botín Foundation’s exhibition space.
“Sol LeWitt. 17 Wall Drawings. 1970-2015” revolves around one of LeWitt’s basic theoretical principles which has since then become widespread in the practice of contemporary visual art, namely, the supremacy of the idea and of the creative process over the work of art proper. As the artist himself pointed out: ‘the idea is the machine that makes the work of art’.
Additionally, the collection of Wall Drawings on show in Santander reflects the extraordinary consistency of LeWitt’s systematic explorations and the notable diversity and evolution of his artistic praxis, both from a stylistic point of view (from his simple geometric figures to “continuous” and “complex” forms) and in terms of the variety of media used (graphite, colour pencils, India ink and acrylic paint).
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